{"id":5128,"date":"2017-08-14T21:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5128"},"modified":"2017-08-15T23:36:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:36:44","slug":"rule-4j-serving-a-foreign-state-or-local-government","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5128","title":{"rendered":"Rule 4(j)\u00a0&#8211; Serving a Foreign, State, or Local Government."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>(j)\u00a0<em>Serving a Foreign, State, or Local Government<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>(1)\u00a0<em>Foreign State<\/em>. <\/strong>A foreign state or its political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality must be served in accordance with 28 U.S.C. \u00a71608.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>(2)\u00a0<em>State or Local Government<\/em>. <\/strong>A state, a municipal corporation, or any other state-created governmental organization that is subject to suit must be served by:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(A) delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to its chief executive officer; or<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(B) serving a copy of each in the manner prescribed by that state\u2019s law for serving a summons or like process on such a defendant.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(j)\u00a0Serving a Foreign, State, or Local Government. (1)\u00a0Foreign State. A foreign state or its political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality must be served in accordance with 28 U.S.C. \u00a71608. (2)\u00a0State or Local Government. A state, a municipal corporation, or any other state-created governmental organization that is subject to suit must be served by: (A) delivering a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rule 4(j)\u00a0&#8211; Serving a Foreign, State, or Local Government.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5189,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5128","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5129,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5128\/revisions\/5129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}