Sobel v. Long Island Entertainment

How courts have described this case

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• noting a defendant's failure to act to protect his interests within a reasonable time estopped him from obtaining relief due to technically defective service
• finding default judgments \will not be vacated for minor flaws in the service of process\ but should be set aside \for a substantial deviation from the service of process rules\
• reversing the lower court’s denial of a motion to vacate and explaining that “even without a violation of due process, a default judgment will be set aside for a substantial deviation from the service of process rules.”
• \The requirements of the rules with respect to service of process go to the jurisdiction of the court and must be strictly complied with. Any defects . . . are fatal and leave the court without jurisdiction and its judgment void.\

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