Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Served Legal Papers

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently received a side dish of legal papers with his lunch while at a media lunch event on Saturday in Idaho.

According to an article in the NY Post, he was sitting with COO Sheryl Sandberg when someone approached their table, asked for Zuckerberg's signature and stated, "You've been served."

What the lawsuit is about is not clear. The NY Post indicates that a Facebook spokeswoman had "no immediate details" about the lawsuit.

Zack Whittaker, who writes the iGeneration blog on ZDNet posted some updated information on the situation on Sunday.

I spoke to ZDNet blogger Denise Howell, a qualified lawyer in regards to this to try and get a better perspective of this issue ... Howell said, "Long story short, the law specifies ‘personal service’ for things like a summons and complaint or a subpoena ... Service by ambush like this is something more the province of collection actions against deadbeats, not captains of industry in Sun Valley. Seems like there’s some kind of embarrassment-related agenda at work here perhaps.”

Hard to say what the alleged lawsuit is about but the facts behind it are likely to surface over the next few days. After all, there's nothing faster than the social media grapevine.

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Facebook Resists Subpoena in Shooting that Involved St. Louis Officer

A former St. Louis police officer who faces a felony trial for a shooting in Pontoon Beach wants to see the Facebook records of several investigating officers and other potential witnesses against him.

Facebook Inc. is resisting a subpoena for those records.

Albert Watkins, attorney for the ex-officer, Bryan Pour, said he believes there are "Facebook friendships" between several officers involved in the investigation and people who were present at Mac N Mick's Sports Bar & Grill on Nov. 9, 2008, when the shooting occurred.

Watkins said those relationships and other evidence "give rise to concerns" about the impartiality of the investigation.

"We believe law enforcement had pre-existing and subsequent relationships with material witnesses," Watkins said. He said it is important to explore those connections.

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Illegal Download Site Pirate Bay Gets Served Via Facebook, Twitter

Never let it be said that the music industry is completely clueless about the digital world; the Dutch antipiracy outfit Brein, perhaps realizing that the medium may be more important than the message a lot of the time these days, has notified the founders of the BitTerrorist haven Pirate Bay that they’re due in court not through a process server, but via Facebook and Twitter.

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New Zealand Judge Allows Papers Served Via Facebook

Earlier today, New Zealand High Court Associate Justice David Glendall approved the delivery of court papers via Facebook to a man being sued over business dealings, Craig Axe. Axe reportedly took US$241,000 from his family's "market garden company account".

Axe was believed to be in Great Britain, though his exact whereabouts were unknown. It was known, however, that he had and maintained a social presence on the Facebook website. Because of this, Daniel Vincent, the plaintiff's lawyer, requested that Facebook be used as the means to serve papers to Axe, as there would be difficulty serving him using conventional methods.

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Australia Says Some Documents Can Be Served via Facebook

The big question about Facebook is does it have any valuable commercial application? Well it seems that the courts have found one.

Today in what appears to be a first in Australia and perhaps the world, Master Harper of the ACT Supreme Court ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook.