Legal Opinion
Bolkiah v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 8, 1999No. B130842PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
JOHNSON, J.
The superior court denied petitioners’ motions to quash service of the summons and complaint for allegedly defective service of process. Petitioners contend they qualify as “foreign states,” thus, to be effective, service had to be made according to the requirements of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (28 U.S.C. § 1602 et seq.). In the alternative, petitioners contend real parties in interest’s attempts at service of process under California law were deficient and therefore ineffective for the superior court to acquire personal jurisdiction over them. Accordingly,…
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