Kassow v. Ohio

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that actual knowledge of an action does not cure defects in service and does not meet service of process and due process requirements
• noting that an appearance by counsel, filed after properly raising lack of proper service in the first responsive pleading, did not waive the defense
• noting that where facts of service are not in dispute, adequacy of service of process presents a pure question of law
• noting that where facts of service are not in dispute, adequacy of service of process presents a pure question of law
• stating that “counsel’s inadvertent failure or half-hearted efforts to serve a defendant within the statutory period does not constitute good cause.”
• noting that where facts are undisputed, determination of whether service of process is adequate is a question of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).