Blair v. Burgener

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “leaving copies 20 of the required documents with a woman working at the front desk of the [served party’s] 21 office” was adequate alternative service.
• finding alternative service was 18 warranted when the plaintiff experienced five failed attempts at physical service and 19 other failed efforts to locate the defendant at work
• “In denying Appellants’ motion . . . the trial court necessarily rejected their arguments . . . .”
• “[T]o meet the standard on impracticability does not require…even showing that actual prior attempts to serve a party under each and every method provided in the statute have been undertaken”
• “the showing for alternative service 21 requires something less than a complete inability to serve the defendant because the defendant’s 22 current address is unknown or the defendant … has avoided service of process.”
• “[T]he showing for alternative service requires something less than a complete 9 inability to serve the defendant because the defendant’s current address is unknown or the 10 defendant completely has avoided service of process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).