Sewer service

Sewer service is an epithet for the intentional failure to provide service of process on a named party in a lawsuit, in order to prevent the party from having a chance to respond.

The phrase refers to the figure of speech of throwing the documents into a sewer.

Further reading

• Tuerkheimer, Frank M. (1972). Service of process in New York City: A proposed end to unregulated criminality. http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/clr72&div=60&id=&page=.  (72 Colum. L. Rev. 847)

• Press Release: "Attorney General Cuomo announces arrest of Long Island business owner for denying thousands of New Yorkers their day in court". April 14, 2009. http://www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2009/apr/apr14a_09.html. 

• Shaun Ertischek, Esq. Debt Collection Through Sewer Service, 31 July 2010. URL : www.lupoloverlaw.com. Accessed: 31 July 2010. (Archived here by WebCite)