Discovery For Private Chinese Tribunal Is Proper, Investors Tell 9th Circuit

Mealey's (June 10, 2020, 10:34 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Chinese entities in a June 4 answer brief to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals argue that a district court did not err or abuse its discretion in allowing discovery of the financial records of a Chinese woman and three California-based entities she manages for use in a private commercial arbitration tribunal in China as such tribunals have been repeatedly established as within the scope of the statute governing discovery for use in foreign proceedings (HRC-Hainan Holding Company, LLC, et al. v. Yihan Hu, et al., No. 20-15371, 9th Cir.)....