On June 13, 2022, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision on the issue of whether 28 U.S.C. § 1782 permits district courts to order discovery for use in international commercial arbitration or ad hoc...more
This is the third in a series of Legal Updates about international discovery and cross-border litigation. Robinson+Cole has broad experience representing international clients and their U.S. subsidiaries in both domestic and...more
On Monday, the Supreme Court resolved a circuit split and issued a long-awaited decision holding that broad U.S.-style discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 is not available in private foreign arbitrations. In the past decade,...more
On June 13, 2022, in a unanimous consolidated decision authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the scope of 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) (Section 1782), which authorizes federal courts to order...more
Parties involved in litigation outside the U.S. have long had a useful information-gathering tool at their disposal: a U.S. statute allowing them to obtain by court order testimony and documents from persons located in the...more
The Supreme Court is (once again) slated to decide the issue of whether a private commercial arbitral panel constitutes a “foreign or international tribunal” under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, in the matter of ZF Automotive US, Inc.,...more
On December 7, 2020, parties and practitioners in international commercial arbitration came one step closer to resolving the threshold question of the applicability of 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to international commercial tribunals....more
On a question of first impression in the Seventh Circuit regarding whether U.S. law allows federal courts to compel discovery for use in a private foreign arbitration, the Seventh Circuit joins the Second and Fifth Circuits...more
The Seventh Circuit is the latest Court of Appeals to enter the fray concerning the scope of application of 28 U.S.C. §1782(a), finding additional reasons to hold that a foreign or international commercial arbitration is not...more
In regard to 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a), U.S. circuit courts split on what qualifies as a “foreign or international tribunal.” The breadth of U.S. discovery in foreign international arbitrations pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a)...more
On March 30, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in Servotronics Inc. v. Boeing Co., 954 F.3d 209 (4th Cir. 2020) that U.S. federal courts may order parties to produce documents and testimony...more
In 1948, the United States first promulgated a unique statutory mechanism by which, via its 1964 amendment, an interested person could receive judicial assistance in obtaining evidence in the U.S. for “use in a proceeding in...more
US Supreme Court Issues Trio of Arbitration Decisions - During its 2018-19 term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued decisions in three cases involving arbitration matters. These decisions, discussed further in our September 26,...more