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· 8/31/1977

United States v. Sielaff

Citations

  • 563 F.2d 821

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that “{nJeither actual notice . .. nor simply naming the person in the caption of the complaint . . . will subject defendant[] to personal jurisdiction if service was not made in substantial compliance with Rule 4”
  • holding that voluntary appearance can waive lack of personal jurisdiction
  • holding that a responsive pleading was a general appearance
  • the California State Colleges and Universities are state agencies and enjoy immunity under the Eleventh Amendment
  • “Defendants must 7 be served in accordance with Rule 4[] . . . or there is no personal jurisdiction.”
  • “Defendants must be served in accordance with 24 Rule 4(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or there is no personal jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Fairchild, Pell, Tone

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