Ex-Helmshore Councillor Fined for Attacking Process Server

A former councillor being served with an injunction banning him from town hall meetings swatted a legal representative with the court papers, magistrates heard.

Process server Steven Baldwin, of Burnley, had been hired by Rossendale Council last May to serve a court order prohibiting Noel O’Brien from attending council meetings or going into council offices.

But while Mr Baldwin tried to serve the injunction on 57-year-old O’Brien, at his home in Mercer Crescent, Helmshore, he tried to slam the door in his face, Preston Magistrates Court heard.

Woman Being Served Chases Down Family, Process Server in Hummer

A Mequon woman is facing three counts of first-degree reckless endangerment after she chased her estranged husband and their 9-year-old daughter around his Mequon house in a Hummer because he wanted to evict her from her home, a criminal complaint filed in Ozaukee County Circuit Court says.Lawrence Hayes, 29, of Jackson was arraigned Thursday on charges of domestic violence and possession with intent to deliver cocaine.

Judge Bans Process Server Stokes and Levin

A process server accused of falsifying documents has been shut down for all practical purposes.

Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office announced that it had convinced Suffolk Superior Court Judge Bruce R. Henry to prohibit Stokes & Levin from acting as a process server, advertising legal process services, accepting money for serving legal papers, and forming another legal process business or operating under a different name.

Peekaboo Plaintiff Hard on Process Servers

A defendant in a local covenant lawsuit is playing hard to get.

David Dias, property owner at 3350 Tea Rose Drive, is in court over an unapproved retaining wall and commercial-vehicle parking.

Or rather, he isn’t.

Dias was a no-show at an Oct. 16 court hearing.

“We’ve had trouble serving him,” said Wayne Lowery, district general manager. “He’s not answering his door.”

Dias’ case-management hearing Oct. 16 was continued until Dec. 17.

“The court continued it 60 days to give us time to serve him, and for him to respond to the service,” Lowery said.

In January 2007, the district first notified Dias of the covenant violations.

“You are hereby required to stop work immediately,” the CSD letter said of the retaining wall project. “You are also required to submit a Property Improvement Application to the Design Review Committee.”