9th Circuit Denies Stay; Trial Court Imposes Sanctions In Arbitral Case

Mealey's (April 24, 2020, 2:24 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — On April 13, two weeks after a two-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied an emergency motion to stay discovery filed by California entities accused of receiving assets for a business currently involved in a Chinese arbitration proceeding and trial, a trial court denied a request by those entities to reconsider its April 2 sanctions order (In re: Application of HRC-Hainan Holding Company, LLC, et al., No. 20-15371, 9th Cir., HRC-Hainan Holding Company, LLC, et al. v. Yihan Hu, et al., No. 19-mc-80277, N.D. Calif.)....