New Facebook Application: “You’ve been served”
You can use Facebook to accumulate friends, poke strangers, and tag photos. And if you’re a lawyer in Australia, you might be able to use it to serve a complaint.
Our legal friends in the Land Down Under have made an interesting ruling. From the Associated Press:
A court in Australia has approved the use of Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, to notify a couple that they lost their home after defaulting on a loan.The Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court last Friday approved lawyer Mark McCormack’s application to use Facebook to serve the legally binding documents after several failed attempts to contact the couple at the house and by e-mail.
The lien notice could have been sent by Facebook messaging—the judge specified that posting to a Wall was not kosher—but the couple got wind of the plan in news reports and took their profiles down.
We love rulings that legitimize the use of Facebook in the workplace. Next up: legal notice via gchat?
Australia OKs Facebook for serving lien notice [Associated Press]
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First! You've been served.
First Fuck you latham
First! You've been served.
Latham to V40
I'm ready for the divorce app. Bababooey
I'm ready for the divorce app. Bababooey
i already read this on yahoo's home page this morning. yawn.
i already read this on yahoo's home page this morning. yawn.
... served by LaTwat
No surprise. Some country in Asia (Korea?) already lets you serve notice by text message. Although I can see problems where the defendant has a fake or abandoned profile... Unlike email, I don't think a Facebook message to an abandoned profile gets bounced back.
awesome
BITCH SPREAD THE BUTTCHEEKS SO I CAN SMELL THE JUICY INSIDES!
"Your managing partner has just posted your layoff notice on your wall."
Atrociously poor post. Very surprised this wasn't MysTTTal.
Hey MysTTTal, why don't you get off your fat ass and figure out the bonus situation at CWT?
Also, let's not forget - let's *not* forget, Dude - that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either.
You can't "poke" strangers on Facebook.
I'm not allowed to poke anyone without adult supervision.
Aw boohoo why doesn't ATL post every single bonus situation at every single firm or how every firm is laying off people? Why don't they talk about the depressing economy in every single post? Waahhhh.
It's supposed to be a gossip blog. The economy sucks. It's not news. Personally, I don't want to read more about how the economy sucks and how big firms aren't hiring or how they're cutting their bonuses. I already know it. If it's major news, cool. But I don't need an update on every single firm - if you actually work there and you're impacted by it, you'll find out.
People whine too damn much on this blog.
12 YOU are a douche!
Nice! Kash, I read drudgereport too!
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COMMENTOR 21
-Plaintiff-
v.
JOHN DOE
a/k/a FRAT STUD
-Defendant-
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YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to dispense with your foolery.
Anyone reading this is ordered to attend court in Missouri tomorrow morning.