Brazilian Firm’s Request For U.S. Discovery Denied In Unfair Competition Suit

Mealey's (January 15, 2019, 9:48 AM EST) -- NEWARK, N.J. — Discovery requests made by a Brazilian recruitment firm in support of an unfair competition lawsuit in its home country were deemed overbroad by a New Jersey federal judge on Jan. 10, who adopted and affirmed a magistrate’s recommendation to deny the company’s discovery petition, also finding that the firm did not establish that the discovery sought via its U.S. petition was unavailable through the Brazilian court (In re Application for Discovery for Use in Foreign Proceeding Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782, No. 2:17-cv-04269, D. N.J., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5632)....