In what appears to be the world’s first case of “you got (legally) served” on Facebook, Master Harper of the ACT Supreme Court decreed that a default judgment in a court case could be served by Facebook’s notification system last week.

The Australian courts already allow documents to be served via email, so in this situation Facebook served as a substitute service for email.

Anyone up for writing a Facebook app that notifies you of impending court dates?

More details at the Sydney Morning Herald.

When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 Blackberry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well as hundreds of emails from early September until a few days after election night.

It probably didn’t include anything that we’d all suspect (like campaign staffers exchanging emails about Palin’s $150,000+ shopping spree), but it may offer insight into the final moments of the campaign.

It is rather ironic that they’d forget to wipe the device clean, given that a McCain’s advisor claimed McCain was responsible for inventing the BlackBerry.

Read the full article at MyFox Washington DC.