Mango

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 GREGORY P. MANGO, Case No. 23-cv-03422-LB

12 Plaintiff,

ORDER REGARDING SERVICE BY

13 v. EMAIL

14 SPECIAL AUTOMOTIVE SOLUTIONS, 15 Defendant. 16 17 The plaintiff in this case has moved for default judgment.1 Previously, the court authorized 18 service via the California Secretary of State after the plaintiff attempted service at the defendant’s 19 business address and through its corporate officers.2 This order requires the plaintiff to also 20 attempt service by email. 21 Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(e), a plaintiff may serve an individual defendant 22 using any method permitted by the law of the state in which the district court is located or in 23 which service is effected. Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e)(1). California law allows for five basic methods of 24 service: (1) personal delivery to the party, see Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 415.10; (2) delivery to 25 someone else at the party’s usual residence…