Mango

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division GREGORY P. MANGO, Case No. 23-cv-03422-LB

Plaintiff,

ORDER REGARDING SERVICE BY

v. EMAIL

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