MATSCO v. Brighton Family Dental, P.C.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s attempts to effectuate service “depends on the factual circumstances of the case”
• explaining that the sufficiency of a plaintiff’s attempts to effectuate service “depends on the factual circumstances of the case”
• denying motion for service by publication, ruling, inter alia, that “[publication in a newspaper in Portland, Maine, where the defendant apparently no longer resides, cannot be said to be reasonably calculated to give him actual notice”
• denying a motion for service by publication where a “number of avenues [did] not appear to have been exhausted,” such as contacting utility companies and querying whether any forwarding address had been left with the Postal Service
• motion denied when “[a] number of avenues [did] not appear to have been exhausted[,]” such as contacting utility companies and querying whether any forwarding address had been left with the Postal Service
• motion denied when “[a] number of avenues [did] not appear to have been exhausted[,]” such as contacting utility companies and querying whether any forwarding address had been left with the Postal Service

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).