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In Reality, They Can't Find You. But Virtually, They Can. And You Are
Still In Real Trouble
First
use of Facebook to serve legal documents
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A weird extra report....
"Oh what a tangled web
we weave, When first we practice to deceive."
-- Sir Walter Scott
Facebook has been used
for the first time to serve legal documents to defendants who
could not be be located in the real world but who could be
located on the web.
A Canberra, Australia, court ordered that a judgment be served to
defendants via their Facebook page when they failed to show up for
court and an address for them could not be located.
"Both
myself and my colleague Jason Oliver have Facebook accounts, so we
thought we could access that and see if we could find them," said attorney Mark McCormack.
The two co-defendants were listed as being friends in their
Facebook profiles and their birth dates matched those of the defendants
being sought, satisfying the court that these were the men.
Email and cell phone text messages have been used to serve
legal notices as well.
Australian
Broadcasting Corp. 15-Dec-08
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