When the FBI Guys Come Knocking...

[Declan McCullagh]

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