Hukill v. Oklahoma Native American Domestic Violence Coalition

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that service by mail that is accepted by an unauthorized person does not substantially comply with the statute and is invalid
• providing that “if the plaintiff shows good cause of the failure, the court must extend the time for service for an appropriate period”
• finding service to be invalid and not in substantial compliance with 12 O.S. § 2004(C)(2) when plaintiff failed to obtain restricted delivery to an authorized person.
• stating the court must determine it has personal jurisdiction over the defendant before it may enter a default judgment
• “[A] default judgment in a civil case is void if there is no personal jurisdiction over the defendant.”
• a default judgment entered without proper service of process is void for lack of jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).