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Democrats serve Australia-based WikiLeaks with lawsuit via Twitter
By artappraiser on Sun, 08/12/2018 - 4:55am |By Anthony Colangelo @ SMH.com.au, Aug. 11
A law firm representing the United States Democratic National Committee has served legal papers to WikiLeaks for their role in the Russia-led interference of the US campaign during the 2016 election.
In a twist, the legal papers have been delivered via a tweet to the WikiLeaks account, with that organisation's physical address listed as the University of Melbourne [.....] The DNC has made numerous attempts to file the suit against WikiLeaks via email but those have failed, meaning DNC lawyers Cohen Milstein took to Twitter to serve Julian Assange's organisation with the legal papers instead. The DNC first filed the lawsuit against Russia and WikiLeaks in April, but in late July they filed a motion in a New York court to get permission to serve the documents via Twitter. The court papers were filed in the NY Southern District [....]
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https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/us-democrats-serve-australia-based-wikileaks-with-lawsuit-via-twitter-20180811-p4zww0.html
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