(June 19, 2018, 4:13 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge on June 11 issued an order requesting information from the U.S. Department of State on whether it has ever received a “verbal note” from the government of Romania that it will accept service only pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters (Hague Convention on Service) through diplomatic channels and not from another litigant (Ioan Micula, et al. v. Government of Romania, No. 17-cv-02332, D. D.C.)....