Court Opinion

ID: 5597388
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 02:43:56.8752+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:36:38.497744
License: Public Domain

Hill, Presiding Justice,
dissenting.
In my view it would be better to allow the plaintiffs attorney to serve the defendant where the sheriff s deputies cannot do so, than to require the plaintiff to employ a private process server to do so. An employed private process server would be an agent of the plaintiff just like plaintiffs attorney. Even a volunteer process server would be acting for the plaintiff. If employed or volunteer process servers can serve process on behalf of the plaintiff, then so can plaintiffs attorney. Any attorney who certifies that service has been perfected when it has not can be disciplined by the court and bar, whereas a private process server who falsely certifies that process has been served may disappear and thereby avoid all discipline.