Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Schlunk

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1988-06-15

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Justice O’Connor delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves an attempt to serve process on a foreign corporation by serving its domestic subsidiary which, under state law, is the foreign corporation’s involuntary agent for service of process. We must decide whether such service is compatible with the Convention on Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matte…

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