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Litigation

Oct. 11, 2016

Alleged terrorist financier served complaint on Twitter

An elusive foreign defendant has become the first party to be served process by Twitter Inc.

By Logan Noblin
Daily Journal Staff Writer

In 2016, lawsuits can be served in 140 characters.

An elusive foreign defendant has become the first party to be served process by Twitter Inc.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of San Francisco previously found that social media was "reasonably calculated to give notice to" Hajjaj bin Fahd al-Ajmi, a terrorist financier who has dodged service in Kuwait but who m...

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