Flanagan v. Department of Human Resources

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a court has no jurisdiction over a defendant until “service is properly accomplished, or is waived by a voluntary appearance” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[T]he court has no jurisdiction [over a defendant] until ... service is properly accomplished, or is waived by a voluntary appearance by the defendant, either personally or through a duly authorized attorney.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “The Maryland Rules governing service of process are ‘declaratory of the basic requirements of due process of law . . .’ and the ‘failure to comply with those Rules constitutes a jurisdictional defect that prevents a court from exercising personal jurisdiction over the defendant.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).