sewer service

English

Noun

sewer service (uncountable)

  1. (law) 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.
    • 1992, A. Leon Levin, Cases and materials on civil procedure, page 18:
      A third CORE investigation revealed additional evidence of sewer service.
    • 2012, David Crump, Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure:
      Ironically, one cause of sewer service is overly stringent requirements that the process server serve the defendant individually, in hand, personally.
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