Order — No. 8:20-cv-01794 (Dkt. 8, M.D. Fla.)

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An Order in United States v. Thu Phan Dinh, Tran Khanh, and Nguyen Duy Toan, Case No. 8:20-cv-1794-T-36AAS, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, entered August 4, 2020 as Document 8. It grants the United States' motion (Doc. 2) for alternate service of process by email on the defendants, whose locations are unknown. The order recounts that the United States seeks injunctive relief under 18 U.S.C. § 1345, alleging a wire fraud scheme in which the defendants registered hundreds of websites posing as online stores for health and safety items scarce because of the COVID-19 pandemic, took PayPal payments and delivered nothing. It finds the Hague Convention does not apply where locations are unknown and that email service under Rule 4(f)(3) satisfies due process.

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