1782 Discovery Blog: U.S. Courts Remain Spilt On Allowing §1782 Discovery For International Arbitration

by Thomas C. Sullivan | Jul 30, 2020 | 1782 Blog

          The Second Circuit has reinforced the spilt among the circuits whether 28 U.S.C. §1782 may be utilized to obtain evidence for use in private international arbitrations outside the United States.  In Hanwei...

Tom Sullivan participates in the virtual book launch webinar “Obtaining Evidence for Use in International Tribunals under 28 U.S.C. Section 1782”

by Thomas C. Sullivan | Jul 9, 2020 | 1782 Blog

June 26. 2020 Transnational discovery is a vitally important part of international litigation. An increasingly important role has been discovery in the United States of information that can be used in international and foreign tribunals. That discovery has been done...

1782 Discovery Blog: California Federal Court Upholds §1782 Discovery For Private Foreign Arbitration Impacting Silicon Valley

by Thomas C. Sullivan | Jun 15, 2020 | 1782 Blog

In HRC-Hainan Holding Co., LLC v. Yihan Hu, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32125, at *11-12 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 25, 2020), the United States Court for the Northern District of California, which encompasses Silicon Valley, authorized  Chinese and Delaware registered companies...

1782 Discovery Blog: The Long Arm Of §1782 Discovery Is Used To Reach Documents Outside The U.S.

by Thomas C. Sullivan | Jun 10, 2020 | 1782 Blog

The Second Circuit in In re del Valle Ruiz, 939 F.3d 520 (2d Cir. 2019) and the  Eleventh Circuit in Sergeeva v. Tripleton Int’l Ltd., 834 F.3d 1194 (11th Cir. 2016) have held there is no per se bar to the extraterritorial application of 28 U.S.C. §1782 and that...

1782 Discovery Blog: The Second Circuit Affirms §1782 Discovery May Be Used To Obtain Documents From Outside The U.S.

by Thomas C. Sullivan | Jun 8, 2020 | 1782 Blog

In In re del Valle Ruiz, 939 F.3d 520 (2d Cir. 2019), the Second Circuit held there is no per se bar to the extraterritorial application of 28 U.S.C. §1782 and that it may be used to reach documents located outside of the United States. In the Southern District of New...

1782 Discovery Blog: The Eleventh Circuit Vacates A §1782 Discovery Order Because Foreign Proceedings Will Not Proceed

by Thomas C. Sullivan | Jun 3, 2020 | 1782 Blog

Under 28 U.S.C. §1782, the U.S. offers a very powerful litigation tool to parties to non-U.S. court proceedings allowing them to obtain bank records, documents and witness testimony from sources within the U.S., even if such evidence is unobtainable through the home...