San Diego County Department of Social Services v. Alan H.

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• explaining that to a contract are free to contractually waive service of process”
• explaining that, “by definition, such waivers render inapplicable the statutes that normally direct and limit the acceptable means of serving process on a defendant” and preclude “the defendant from successfully challenging the court’s jurisdiction over him.”
• “[P]recluding a contractual waiver of the service provisions of the Hague Convention would allow people to unilaterally negate their clear and unambiguous written waivers of service by the simple expedient of leaving the country.”
• “[F]ederal courts . . . have concluded that [service by email and fax] is proper as long as there has been a showing that those methods are ‘reasonably calculated to apprise defendants of the pendency of the action’”

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