Sewer service
Sewer service is an epithet for the intentional failure to provide service of process on a named party in a lawsuit, in order to prevent the party from having a chance to respond.
The phrase refers to the figure of speech of throwing the documents into a sewer.
Further reading
- Tuerkheimer, Frank M. (1972). "Service of process in New York City: A proposed end to unregulated criminality". (72 Colum. L. Rev. 847)
- Press Release: "Attorney General Cuomo announces arrest of Long Island business owner for denying thousands of New Yorkers their day in court". April 14, 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-11-17.
- Shaun Ertischek, Esq. Debt Collection Through Sewer Service, 31 July 2010. (Archived here by WebCite)
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