Opinion ID: 1231745
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: The Process Server Matter

Text: The complainants in this matter are process servers who were retained to serve a summons, complaint, and interrogatories on Respondent's client. The complainants attempted to serve Respondent's client at her workplace, but the woman who answered the door at the building alleged that Respondent's client was not present at that time. The complainants waited outside the business, observed Respondent's client leave the building, and attempted to serve Respondent's client in the parking lot when she returned. The complainants photographed their attempt to serve Respondent's client, but the client denied that she was the person named in the pleadings. The client threw the pleadings back at the complainants and then closed the gate to the parking lot, locking the complainants inside the lot. The client then instructed an employee to call Respondent. When Respondent arrived, he used his car to further block the complainants' exit and he asserted that the complainants' photographing his client violated his client's rights. The complainants asked that they be allowed to leave, but Respondent refused to move his vehicle. The complainants eventually phoned the police, and after the police arrived, Respondent moved his vehicle so the complainants could leave.