Reaves v. Knauer

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• opining that in actions against Cot entitled to representation by the Attorney service to the OAG, the defendant is mmonwealth parties, defendants “are General”
• “[A] party is under no obligation to answer a complaint lacking a notice to defend.”
• “A party seeking to challenge the factual averments in the record at the time the judgment was entered should file a petition to open the judgment.”
• “[The] failure to serve a copy of the complaint on the Attorney General cannot be excused. This omission renders [the p]laintiff’s service defective and deprived the trial court of jurisdiction over [the defendants].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).