The Belford Lawsuit heads towards its logical conclusion.
So it’s come to be. The court has finally granted Googasian the license to go ahead and serve the notice through email, fax or chat. What an embarrassment of riches. Googasian can now go ahead and discover what’s been specified in the terms and conditions of Belford High School for long now; that they are not a US based entity and any court proceedings in the state of Michigan will have no impact on Belford. Belford’s been operating within the terms of service they clearly specified on their website and there have been no missteps on their part as far as the law is concerned.
This is turning out to be a landmark case though as service of legal notices through alternate means is something that the courts rarely allow. One of the reasons courts don’t do that is because it is by definition, an exercise in futility. If there is no possible way of locating a defendant except through email or chat, then that’s an indication of the fact that the defendant would most probably be out jurisprudence of any implications of the case anyway. Civil injury lawyers do not pursue such desperate cases to such extreme ends because they are fully aware that in any events these cases would result in outcomes that can’t be beneficial for their clients and would be construed as wastage of courts time and resources.
Well, Googasian has now managed to finally achieve that. The order given to Googasian to pursue discovery of defendant’s identity (without any attached subpoenas mind you) will eventually lead to a disclosure of information that’s already stale cake. Belford are not based in Michigan, this will not lead to benefits to anyone and this may turn out to be a career threatening mistake on part of Googasian.
Sure, the plot thickens, but it’s also heading towards a conclusion that we’d long established on this blog.
