Poland Resident Cannot Avoid Discovery Under GDPR In RICO Suit, Judge Rules

Mealey's (May 26, 2020, 12:05 PM EDT) -- ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A food distributor’s ex-vice president who now resides in Poland cannot invoke the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to escape his discovery duties in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) suit brought by his former employer, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled May 21, concluding that the defendant could not meet his burden to establish that the European law bars production from him as a U.S. citizen (Giorgi Global Holdings Inc., et al. v. Wieslaw Smulski, et al., No. 5:17-cv-04416, E.D. Pa., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89369)....