Service by Birdcage-Liner

In re Establishment of The Press-Enterprise as a Newspaper of General Circulation, (D4d2 May 7, 2015)

When the law refers to something as “constructive,” it basically means it’s a lie. That’s how service by publication works. You try really hard to serve someone, and then, instead of just giving up, you publish a notice in some publication that nobody actually reads and get your default judgment. There is no real service. It’s the effort that counts.