[Rick Lee]

Ah yes, the checking the website thing was a big issue here for a while. When they mail you the ticket, they give you a case number to go look up on the court's website. For a while the court was considering you served if you logged in your case number. But since that is not considered personal service, it was tossed out and so you can look up your case, call about it, whatever, and you're not considered served until you've either signed a waiver of service, enrolled in traffic school or the process server has personally handed the complaint to a "competent adult residing at that address." Lots of folks have had their kids accept the service and then the parent was still considered served, which I think should eventually be tossed out in court. I know a guy who got served in his swimming pool. The server came into the backyard, asked he was so and so, he said yes, not knowing who was asking and that was all they needed to drop the complaint on the ground and mark him served. I've also heard they just need to personally see the car from the photo also parked at the address to which it's registered. None of this happened to us.

I guess we'll know more on Mon. when wifey talks to the lawyer. Who knows? Maybe it'll be a lawyer who's been dying to pursue a case like this and get his name in the paper. Since only Scottsdale is doing this, it would make some news if someone beat it.