So apparently federal courts in Illinois consider email to be sufficient to serve someone notice of a lawsuit, including for our-of-state defendants. Now we have a case of a woman in Florida facing a default judgement for copyright infringement because she missed her summons.
Apparently it was in the junk mail of a lesser-used inbox.
Kinda scary to think that getting behind on your email could cost you $250k. I don't think it should work that way...
@Alex Welcome to dystopia.
Guess the woman should sue her email provider that implemented her SPAM filter for filtering the wrong email? (She might try to send the notice of a lawsuit via email to the provider, in a maximum spammy email. 🤷 )
@yacc143 I'm tempted to proactively reach out to the Illinois court system to ask how to register my primary email address and learn what domains they email from so I can whitelist them.
Or, better yet, opt out of paperless communications.
Because this sounds like the beginning of a new type of litigious trolling that people are going to have to protect themselves from.
@Alex Lucky us here in Austria, as much they can be a pain in the posterior, all official mail comes as RSa/RSb letters (basically registered letters that only sovereign bodies, e.g. courts can issue, that either the recipient personally has to sign for, or somebody from his household can sign for). End of story. If you want them electronically, you have to opt in for that.
RSa usually for the bad stuff, RSb for the mixed or sometimes good stuff.