Obtaining Discovery From Foreign Litigants: Competing Views on Comity

June 19, 2012

Foreign litigants in U.S. courts can find themselves caught between broad federal discovery orders and far more restrictive privacy-driven laws of the countries in which they are located. This article discusses two recent cases in which U.S. courts had to balance foreign privacy laws with U.S. discovery requests.

Attorneys

Edward M. Spiro