Company Urges High Court To Not Stay Section 1782 Discovery Order Pending Appeal

Mealey's (April 26, 2021, 11:34 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An engine parts-maker in an April 23 brief tells the U.S. Supreme Court to deny Rolls-Royce PLC’s application to stay scheduled witness depositions for use in an arbitration in England while the parts-maker’s appeal is pending before the high court over whether such discovery can be ordered for private commercial tribunals because its high court appeal arose from a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision while the depositions were authorized by the Fourth Circuit in a decision Rolls-Royce never appealed....