The Flint Journal - Bryn Mickle
The Flint Journal John W. AdkissonBurton police officers investigate the scene of a possible meth lab Friday afternoon on LaSalle Avenue in Burton. Burton police and fire were notified after a process server discovered a chemistry set and ingredients while working at the house.
BURTON, Michigan -- Police and firefighters were trying to determine Friday evening if a home in a quiet suburban neighborhood was being used to make potentially explosive methamphetamine.
Firefighters were called to the house on Lasalle Avenue near Belsay and Lapeer Roads about 4:30 p.m. after a process server, who was evicting someone at the home, called 911 to report hazardous materials in the basement and in a white cube truck parked in the driveway.
Among the chemicals were anhydrous ammonia and ether, chemicals used in the production of methamphetamine.
"If something were to ignite, we'd have a big explosion," said Deputy Burton Fire Chief Ken Gould.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Man says he was severely beaten by a Denver process server
Denver Post - Carlos Illescas
CENTENNIAL — A civil trial gets underway today in Arapahoe County District Court in which a man says he was severely beaten by a Denver process server who was not charged in the assault.
Ken Bernstein is suing the Denver process-server company, Checkmate Inc., for hiring Anthony Davis, a convicted felon.
According to the lawsuit, on Sept. 30, 2005, Davis was serving Bernstein with a civil subpoena and after serving it, Davis, now 39, refused to leave.
Bernstein then tried to call police, the lawsuit said, when Davis punched him in the side of his head. Bernstein's 8 year-old son was at the home and tried to revive his father. Bernstein suffered permanent brain damage, the lawsuit says.
Criminal charges were not filed. Bernstein's attorney, Chad Hemmat, said no charges were filed because prosecutors did not have enough evidence.
But Checkmate attorney Kathy Chaney said the district attorney's office decided Davis acted in self-defense. She said Bernstein came out of his house like a "raving madman reeking of alcohol," was aggressive and yelled racial epithets at Davis...
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CENTENNIAL — A civil trial gets underway today in Arapahoe County District Court in which a man says he was severely beaten by a Denver process server who was not charged in the assault.
Ken Bernstein is suing the Denver process-server company, Checkmate Inc., for hiring Anthony Davis, a convicted felon.
According to the lawsuit, on Sept. 30, 2005, Davis was serving Bernstein with a civil subpoena and after serving it, Davis, now 39, refused to leave.
Bernstein then tried to call police, the lawsuit said, when Davis punched him in the side of his head. Bernstein's 8 year-old son was at the home and tried to revive his father. Bernstein suffered permanent brain damage, the lawsuit says.
Criminal charges were not filed. Bernstein's attorney, Chad Hemmat, said no charges were filed because prosecutors did not have enough evidence.
But Checkmate attorney Kathy Chaney said the district attorney's office decided Davis acted in self-defense. She said Bernstein came out of his house like a "raving madman reeking of alcohol," was aggressive and yelled racial epithets at Davis...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Process server is beaten, stabbed to death
Rocky Mountain News - Bill Scanlon
A 45-year-old man used a baseball bat and a knife to kill the process server who had just handed him divorce papers, and then used his hands to choke his two children into unconsciousness, Larimer County sheriff's deputies said Thursday.
The process server who was bludgeoned and stabbed to death Wednesday night was identified as Stephen D. Allen, 57, of Fort Collins.
James Scott Whitler, 45, is being held without bail in Larimer County Jail on charges of murder, attempted murder and child abuse.
Larimer County deputies said they saw Whitler strangling his own children as they entered Whitler's home near Loveland.
Allen, the process server, had just given Whitler divorce papers and a restraining order at the house in the 4900 block of Glade Drive when the attacks occurred, sheriff's officials say.
Witnesses said Whitler left the room before the attacks, supposedly to gather his personal property. When he returned, he attacked the process server with a baseball bat.
It took two Taser shots to subdue Whitler, deputies said.
The 10- and 12-year- old children were taken to Medical Center of the Rockies. Their conditions have not been released. Whitler's wife, Lisa, also was injured in the incident, deputies said.
Two weeks ago, Lisa Whitler had called the sheriff about disturbing text messages sent to her phone by her husband, sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said.
Four days ago, James Whitler told deputies that his wife was out of control and that the children did not want to go with her.
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A 45-year-old man used a baseball bat and a knife to kill the process server who had just handed him divorce papers, and then used his hands to choke his two children into unconsciousness, Larimer County sheriff's deputies said Thursday.
The process server who was bludgeoned and stabbed to death Wednesday night was identified as Stephen D. Allen, 57, of Fort Collins.
James Scott Whitler, 45, is being held without bail in Larimer County Jail on charges of murder, attempted murder and child abuse.
Larimer County deputies said they saw Whitler strangling his own children as they entered Whitler's home near Loveland.
Allen, the process server, had just given Whitler divorce papers and a restraining order at the house in the 4900 block of Glade Drive when the attacks occurred, sheriff's officials say.
Witnesses said Whitler left the room before the attacks, supposedly to gather his personal property. When he returned, he attacked the process server with a baseball bat.
It took two Taser shots to subdue Whitler, deputies said.
The 10- and 12-year- old children were taken to Medical Center of the Rockies. Their conditions have not been released. Whitler's wife, Lisa, also was injured in the incident, deputies said.
Two weeks ago, Lisa Whitler had called the sheriff about disturbing text messages sent to her phone by her husband, sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said.
Four days ago, James Whitler told deputies that his wife was out of control and that the children did not want to go with her.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Kenya: Ruling - Poll Petitioners Must Do Homework
All Africa - Nyakundi Nyamboga
Nairobi — The petitioner lost to the first respondent in the December 27 parliamentary elections.
He petitioned against the results on January 24, complaining of the conduct of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and its official, Mr Andrew Rianga.
The first respondent, the Assistant minister, Dr Wilfred Machage, then filed this application on February 28 for orders that the petition be struck off. He said the petition was defective and invalid.
Through lawyers, Mr Tom Kajwang' and Mr Ochillo Ayacko, the petitioner's application was on the ground that he was not served with the petition within the period prescribed by law.
Mr Mwita Maroa opposed the application on the grounds that Machage had accepted service of the petition "personally" through his personal secretary.
He argued that the documents presented to court showed the assistant minister was served as provided for in law on January 25 at his office at Co-operative House, Nairobi.
Machage's personal secretary allegedly made it clear that she was authorised to receive the document on his behalf, but in an affidavit, Maroa claims that she refused to sign a copy of the petition.
The petitioner further claimed that as a precautionary measure, he still had to serve Machage by way of publication in the Kenya Gazette after the assistant minister "perfected the art of evading service"...
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Nairobi — The petitioner lost to the first respondent in the December 27 parliamentary elections.
He petitioned against the results on January 24, complaining of the conduct of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and its official, Mr Andrew Rianga.
The first respondent, the Assistant minister, Dr Wilfred Machage, then filed this application on February 28 for orders that the petition be struck off. He said the petition was defective and invalid.
Through lawyers, Mr Tom Kajwang' and Mr Ochillo Ayacko, the petitioner's application was on the ground that he was not served with the petition within the period prescribed by law.
Mr Mwita Maroa opposed the application on the grounds that Machage had accepted service of the petition "personally" through his personal secretary.
He argued that the documents presented to court showed the assistant minister was served as provided for in law on January 25 at his office at Co-operative House, Nairobi.
Machage's personal secretary allegedly made it clear that she was authorised to receive the document on his behalf, but in an affidavit, Maroa claims that she refused to sign a copy of the petition.
The petitioner further claimed that as a precautionary measure, he still had to serve Machage by way of publication in the Kenya Gazette after the assistant minister "perfected the art of evading service"...
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Friday, April 18, 2008
RIAA sued homeless man
The Inquirer - Egan Orion
Left summons at old address
RIAA LAWYERS narrowly avoided a court sanction in a case where they sued a homeless man.
In Warner v. Berry, the RIAA sued a man who was then staying in a homeless shelter. Apparently undeterred in the least by the defendant's impecunious circumstances, big music's legal furies unleashed a minion to track the man down and serve him with a summons and complaint. The sequence of events that ensued went thusly:
On April 9, 2007, the mafiaa's process server posted a copy of the summons and complaint on the door of the defendant's former apartment, even though the plaintiffs knew that it was not his then current address.
On April 17, 2007, the recording industry plaintiffs asked for a postponement of a scheduled conference because their "attempts at service at Defendant's last-known address were unsuccessful." They requested a 60 day adjournment for "conducting a thorough address investigation to locate a current address."
On April 25, 2007, the plaintiffs' process server executed an affidavit of service, declaring that on April 9, 2007, at 3:50 p.m., she had "served" the summons by affixing one copy "in a conspicuous place on the property known as: 1713 Adee Ave Apt. 1 Bronx, N.Y. 10469" -- an address where they knew at the time that the defendant was no longer in residence...
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Left summons at old address
RIAA LAWYERS narrowly avoided a court sanction in a case where they sued a homeless man.
In Warner v. Berry, the RIAA sued a man who was then staying in a homeless shelter. Apparently undeterred in the least by the defendant's impecunious circumstances, big music's legal furies unleashed a minion to track the man down and serve him with a summons and complaint. The sequence of events that ensued went thusly:
On April 9, 2007, the mafiaa's process server posted a copy of the summons and complaint on the door of the defendant's former apartment, even though the plaintiffs knew that it was not his then current address.
On April 17, 2007, the recording industry plaintiffs asked for a postponement of a scheduled conference because their "attempts at service at Defendant's last-known address were unsuccessful." They requested a 60 day adjournment for "conducting a thorough address investigation to locate a current address."
On April 25, 2007, the plaintiffs' process server executed an affidavit of service, declaring that on April 9, 2007, at 3:50 p.m., she had "served" the summons by affixing one copy "in a conspicuous place on the property known as: 1713 Adee Ave Apt. 1 Bronx, N.Y. 10469" -- an address where they knew at the time that the defendant was no longer in residence...
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