Two Courts Permit Defendants to be Served on Facebook
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When the defendants could not otherwise be located and served by paper, face-to-face, two Judges ordered service on Facebook since the defendants were in Turkey and Antigua. Since Turkey “has not specifically objected to service by email or social media networking sites which are not explicitly listed as means of service” on February 20, 2014, US Magistrate Judge Thomas Rawles Jones, Jr. (Eastern District of Virginia) in the case Whoshere, Inc., v. Gokhan Orun d/b/a/ WhoNear; Who Near; whonear.me ordered that the summons and complaint could be transmitted to the defendant under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 4(f)(3) by:
1) email to gokhan@whonear.me;
2) email to gokhanorun@gmail.com;
3) Facebook at www.facebook.com/OrunGokhan; and
4) LinkedIn at www.linkedin/in/gokhanorum.
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