LONDON (AP) Status update: You're sued. A British judge says it's OK to use Facebook to serve legal claims. Lawyers in a case had been trying to track someone in order to serve legal documents. One of the attorneys says a copy of the suit was left at the man's last known address, but that it wasn't clear whether he was still living there, and they didn't have his email address.
So, they applied for permission to send him the claim through Facebook. She says they monitored the account and know he checked it regularly. Ordinarily, British legal claims are served in person, by mail, or by fax, although unconventional methods are used occasionally if the people involved are hard to pin down.
Last year, a judge filed an injunction against London-based Occupy protesters via text message.




