In re Goodrich Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the “French Republic has acquiesced to service of judicial documents pursuant to Article 10 of the Convention which allows a plaintiff to serve process in one of three alternate methods, to wit[ ]; 1
• noting that “it is well known that the dismissal of the action under FED. R. CIV. P. 12(b)(5) is inappropriate when there is a reasonably conceivable means through which service may be obtained and jurisdiction acquired over the defendant”
• describing a motion to dismiss for insufficient service of process under the analogous FRCP 12(b)(5) rule
• “Plaintiff may not depend on the parent-subsidiary relationship per se to pierce a corporate veil.”
• “district courts possess broad discretion to dismiss the action or retain the case and quash the service made on the defendant”
• “if the first service is ineffective, and the defects are curable, the [c]ourt should treat a motion to dismiss as a motion to quash service of process in the alternative and retain the case pending effective service”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).