Freedom Watch, Inc. v. OPEC, No. 13-7019 (D.C. Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseFreedom Watch filed suit against OPEC, alleging that OPEC violated federal anti-trust law by fixing the price of gasoline. The district court dismissed based on insufficiency of service of process. The court agreed with the district court that Freedom Watch failed to satisfy the requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 4 by serving process on OPEC at its headquarters in Vienna via personal delivery and Austrian mail. However, because the district court invoked Rule 4(h)(1) instead of its discretionary authority under Rule 4(f)(3) - authorization of alternative methods of serving process on OPEC - in rejecting Freedom Watch's request, the court remanded to enable the district court to exercise its discretion under the latter provision.
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