In October 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals granted a petition to rehear the case of Corporacion AIC, SA v. Hidroelectrica Santa Rita S.A. en banc to determine whether enforcement challenges of nondomestic...more
Since the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued its June 2022 critical decision in AlixParters, LLP v. Fund for Prot. of Investors’ Rights in Foreign States, private parties have been foreclosed from petitioning federal courts...more
On July 8, the Second Circuit affirmed a refusal to enforce a $1.8 billion arbitration award (now worth approximately $2.7 billion with interest) annulled by a Nigerian court in Esso v. Nigerian National Petroleum Company. In...more
On June 13, the Supreme Court unanimously held that parties engaged in private, commercial arbitrations, as well as at least some investor-state arbitrations, seated abroad cannot obtain discovery in the United States under...more
The U.S. Supreme Court will resolve the circuit split concerning whether 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) (Section 1782) applies to private, commercial international arbitrations after all. On December 10, the Court agreed to hear a pair...more
The Servotronics Inc. v. Rolls-Royce PLC et al. case accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court has been settled and withdrawn, with the matter now removed from the Court’s October 2021 argument calendar. As reported in our March 23...more
After its conference on March 19, the Supreme Court decided to hear the request of Servotronics, Inc. to determine whether parties in private, commercial, international arbitrations can avail themselves of 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a)...more
On December 7, the Supreme Court received a request to decide whether parties in private, commercial, international arbitrations can avail themselves of 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) (Section 1782) to obtain discovery through U.S....more
This is an update to our article “Supreme Court May Decide if Litigants Can Conduct U.S. Discovery for Private International Arbitrations,” published on July 7, 2020. The next day, July 8, the Second Circuit upheld its 1999...more
While discovery, especially document discovery, is increasingly a feature in complex international commercial arbitrations, it is almost never as broad as discovery permitted by U.S. law and procedure. Indeed, when global...more