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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

YVONNE EDITH MARIA SCHUMACHER, 

 

 Plaintiff, 

 

 v. 

AIRBNB, INC., et al., 

 Defendants. 

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No. C 15-5734 CW 

ORDER EXTENDING 

TIME FOR SERVICE 

(Docket No. 44) 

 

Plaintiff Yvonne Schumacher files this motion to extend time 

for service on Defendant Fariah Hassim, and to effectuate service 

by publication. Plaintiff has served both other Defendants. The 

Court grants this motion in part and denies it in part. 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(e)(1) allows parties to 

effectuate service as California law permits. Under California 

law, a summons may be served by publication if it appears "that 

the party to be served cannot with reasonable diligence be served 

in another manner" and if a cause of action exists against the 

party upon whom service is to be made. Cal. Civ. Proc. Code 

§ 415.50(a). For example, a California Court of Appeal concluded 

that a corporation was not diligent enough where it discovered 

that the party to be served was in Canada but made no effort to 

find the party's address or to ask the party's counsel for an 

address. Kott v. Super. Ct., 45 Cal. App. 4th 1126, 1138-39 

(1996). 

Here, Schumacher can both contact Hassim's counsel and look 

for Hassim's address in Canada. The Court DENIES Plaintiff's 

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motion to serve Hassim by publication, without prejudice. It 

GRANTS Plaintiff's motion to extend time. The new deadline for 

service is thirty days from the date of this order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: August 16, 2016 

CLAUDIA WILKEN 

United States District Judge 

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