The Democratic National Committee has encountered multiple challenges serving White House senior adviser Jared Kushner with a lawsuit.
Kushner was sued by the DNC in April for alleged collusion with the Kremlin in the 2016 election, but an official notice has yet to be delivered to him.
The DNC has sought unsuccessfully to provide the documents to his Manhattan apartment on three occasions, according to Bloomberg. They also sought to serve the summons to his home in Washington, D.C., only to be dismissed by the Secret Service.
The DNC then resorted to trying the U.S. Postal Service, but were informed that it couldn’t be delivered because no one would sign for it.
The Democratic National Committee’s motion to use U.S. Postal Service first-class mail, which would not require a signature, to formally inform Kushner that they have sued him was rejected by a federal judge on Tuesday.
“Service is not intended to be a game for the serving party or the party to be served,” U.S. District Judge John Koeltl wrote Tuesday. “The court is confident that the DNC’s counsel can contact Kushner’s counsel and arrange a mutually convenient means to effectuate service.”
The Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, and Russia were sued by the DNC earlier this year for allegedly meddling in the 2016 election, actions the DNC labeled a “brazen attack on American democracy.”
