26 Sep
2001
26 Sep
'01
1:22 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:07:49PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
None. You are not obligated to make serving papers convenient. You can be out of the country, you can leave by limousine from an underground garage, you can crawl out you bathroom window. This is, as the lawyers say, "black letter law."
There's an entertaining aside that happened in Hawaii during WWII during a conflict between civilian and military law. The US Marshals, on behalf of the civil courts, tried to serve a military commander with a subpoena. The officer ordered troops to block the marshal from walking onto the porch, while he escaped through a side exit to a waiting car. -Declan