Gary Dean Broad Denise Broad, Husband and Wife v. Mannesmann Anlagenbau Ag

ORDER

FERGUSON, Circuit Judge:

I

This case involves a tension between the State of Washington’s 90-day deadline for serving defendants and the provisions of the Convention on The Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil Or Commercial Matters, Nov. 15, 1965 (“the Hague Convention”), 20 U.S.T. 361, T.I.A.S. No. 6638, which govern the service of process in signatory countries. In light of the important and undecided issue this case presents, and mindful that “[c]ertification saves time, energy, and resources and helps build a cooperative judicial federalism,” we hereby…