I wrote almost a year ago about Missouri v. China, which I called the “unmeritorious case of the day.” This is the case brought by the state of Missouri against the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, alleging that the COVID-19 pandemic is “the direct result of a sinister campaign of malfeasance and deception carried out by the Defendants.” When we think, a year later, about the reasons the pandemic has been so bad in the United States, “blame China” seems quaint. Anyway, as I observed in the prior post, leaving aside everything else wrong with the case, it was going to be a challenge to serve process on the defendants, and that’s…

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