Obtaining Discovery from a Foreign Corporation through Its Domestic Affiliate

April 21, 2020  |  New York Law Journal

Parties to civil litigation often seek to obtain records held by foreign companies by subpoenaing their U.S. subsidiaries or affiliates. In this article, we analyze Southern District Magistrate Judge Katherine H. Parker’s recent decision in Hake v. Citibank, N.A., 2020 WL 1467132 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 26, 2020), in which Judge Parker denied a motion to compel a domestic bank to produce documents held by its foreign parent on various grounds, including because the plaintiffs had failed to show that a sufficiently close relationship existed between the foreign parent and the domestic subsidiary.

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