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Strategy Considerations for Global Litigation
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International Litigation and Transactions in the Face of GDPR – A Panel Preview
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In Banco Mercantil De Norte, S.A. et al. v. Juan Jose Paramo, the Fifth Circuit recently affirmed a Texas district court’s denial of a motion to quash a 28 U.S.C. § 1782 subpoena issued to Juan Jose Paramo, a Mexican national...more
On December 14, 2023, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) granted an unusual ex parte application to serve third-party discovery subpoenas on U.S.-based Deutsche Bank entities....more
Cross-border litigants are familiar with the Hague Evidence Convention, but often overlook another potent method to collect evidence in foreign countries. The Walsh Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1783, gives courts the discretion to...more
Objections to Foreign Subpoena- Byrd v. Lindsay Corp., 7th Dist. Mahoning No. 19 MA 0116, 2020-Ohio-5461- In this appeal, the Seventh Appellate District affirmed the trial court’s decision and agreed that the documents...more
The applicant sought to require documents and deposition testimony from an individual located in, and a corporation headquartered in, New York for use in an international arbitration initiated against the Republic of...more
Last week, in Servotronics, Inc. v. Boeing Co., the Fourth Circuit became the latest United States Court of Appeals to allow Section 1782 discovery for use in private international arbitrations. Section 1782 is a powerful...more
Companies who do business in the United States and have documents located abroad must understand the potential conflicts between the broad extraterritorial discovery authorized by U.S. courts, and the major restrictions on...more
A federal court in the Northern District of California has adopted the reasoning and conclusion of a recent Sixth Circuit decision in holding that 28 U.S.C. § 1782 applies with respect to private foreign/international...more
Historically focused on manually wading through large volumes of email and electronic documents, e-discovery is transforming in nuanced ways. Discovery of mobile devices, social media and other online applications raises...more
As discussed in a previous blog post, an interested party in a foreign or international proceeding may apply to a United States District Court for discovery from an individual or corporation who resides or is found in the...more
The Third Circuit has vacated and remanded a district court’s decision quashing a subpoena issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782, which allows a party to procure discovery for us in a foreign proceeding, finding that the...more
A group of minority shareholders of Acheron Portfolio Corporation Luxembourg S.A. have convinced a federal district court in New York to permit them to subpoena several large banks for documents in aid of the shareholders’...more
This is a significant decision, given how often non-U.S. clients entrust U.S. law firms with their documents. On July 10, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that law firm Cravath need not divulge...more
It always comes when you least expect it – a government inquiry to investigate your business. While it may instill a sense of panic, there are steps you can take to make sure you’re in the best position possible when the...more
The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and moots the Supreme Court's consideration of a dispute between the U.S. government and Microsoft over whether Microsoft...more
On April 17, 2018, at the request of both sides of United States v. Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court remanded and dismissed one of the most closely watched privacy cases of the last several years just a few weeks after...more
The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) was recently signed into law as part of the omnibus appropriations bill. ...more
Without any public hearings, review, or public comment Congress created the CLOUD Act which was signed into law as part of the $1.3 trillion government spending bill which changed the 1986 Stored Communications Act (SCA). The...more
On April 17, 2018, the Supreme Court dismissed United States v. Microsoft, No. 17-12, 548 U.S. ___ (2018) (per curiam), deciding that recently enacted federal legislation had mooted the legal dispute in the case. The appeal...more
As had been expected following the passage of the CLOUD Act by Congress last month, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded and ordered the dismissal of the pending United States v. Microsoft Corporation, Inc. case in a per curiam...more
In a February 27 MuniBlog posting we described a case pending before the United States Supreme Court on whether the provider of email services, Microsoft, must provide electronic communications stored outside the United...more
Yesterday, the long-running dispute between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. government regarding data stored abroad was resolved by the United States Supreme Court. ...more
On March 30, 2018 Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Microsoft Corporation that seeks to vacate the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...more
Location, Location, Location. While it is often used to describe a key to selling real estate, the location of a server may be just as important. The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on February 27, 2018, on...more
Globalization and international trade bring European corporations and affiliates into contact with US markets. This may lead to US litigation, which differs significantly from litigation in most other countries of the world. ...more