2nd Circuit Told Section 1782 Discovery Doesn’t Apply To ICSID Arbitrations

(August 3, 2023, 1:22 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The Republic of Panama and an engineering company in an appellee brief tell the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that it should affirm a ruling quashing an Italian company’s subpoena seeking discovery for an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) case, writing that under recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent a court cannot help a party obtain discovery for a  “private investor-State arbitration proceeding.”...