This term the Supreme Court is set to resolve a circuit split over the extent of a federal district court’s power to order a person “who resides in or is found” in its district “to give testimony or statement or to produce a...more
The Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certorari in Servotronics Inc. v. Rolls Royce PLC et al, No. 19-1847, 2020 WL 5640466 (7th Cir. Sept. 22, 2020) and will have the opportunity to resolve an important...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