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Nature of Suit Code: 446
Nature of Suit: Americans with Disabilities Act - Other
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Daniel C. Edington and Noreen A.

Edington, 

Plaintiffs, 

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Yavapai County, et al., 

Defendants. 

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No. CV-05-4227-PCT-FJM

ORDER

The court has before it defendants' motion for reconsideration (doc. 31), plaintiffs'

motion to strike and motion for hearing (doc. 30), and defendants' response (doc. 27). In

their motion for reconsideration, defendants ask us to reconsider our conclusion that their

waiver of service under Rule 4(d), Fed. R. Civ. P., served to moot their motion to dismiss

based on untimely service. In the waivers of service, defendants acknowledged that they

"will retain all defenses or objections to the lawsuit or to the jurisdiction or venue of the court

except for objections based on a defect . . . in the service of the summons" (docs. 19-25)

(emphasis added). Defendants have cited no authority, and we have found none, that would

permit objections to the timeliness of service despite this broad language. Defendants'

reliance on Coutinho, Caro & Co. v. Fed. Pacifica Liberia Ltd., 127 F.R.D. 150 (N.D. Ill.

1989), is unfounded in that it does not address the application or effect of a Rule 4(d) waiver.

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Based on the foregoing, IT IS ORDERED DENYING defendants' motion for

reconsideration (doc. 31). IT IS FURTHER ORDERED DENYING plaintiffs' motion to

strike and motion for hearing as moot (doc. 30) based on our order filed September 5, 2006

(doc. 28). 

DATED this 7th day of September, 2006.

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