sewer service (uncountable)
- (law) The intentional failure to provide service of process on a named party in a lawsuit, in order to prevent the party from having a chance to respond.
1992, A. Leon Levin, Cases and materials on civil procedure, page 18:A third CORE investigation revealed additional evidence of sewer service.
2012, David Crump, Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure:Ironically, one cause of sewer service is overly stringent requirements that the process server serve the defendant individually, in hand, personally.