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In re del Valle Ruiz (2d Cir.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 May 2020
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On October 7, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision in In re del Valle Ruiz that significantly expands the ability of parties to foreign legal proceedings to obtain discovery from U.S. courts. The Second Circuit reached two key conclusions that work to expand the reach of discovery by American courts: first, that the reach of 28 U.S.C. section 1782 applies to the full limit of constitutional due process, and second, that there is no bar on the ability of U.S. courts to order the production of documents outside of the United States under section 1782.
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1 In re: Application of Antonio del Valle Ruiz and others for an order to take discovery for use in foreign proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. para. 1782 (del Valle Ruiz), 939 F.3d 520 (2nd Cir. 2019).
2 Id. at 524–25.
3 28 U.S.C. para. 1782.
4 Del Valle Ruiz, supra note 1 at 525.
5 Id. at 530.
6 Id. at 531.
7 Sergeeva v. Tripleton Int'l Ltd., 834 F.3d 1194 (11th Cir. 2016).
8 Del Valle Ruiz, supra note 1 at 533.
9 Id. at 532 n.16.
10 Id. (quoting Hans Smit, American Assistance to Litigation in Foreign and International Tribunals: Section 1782 of Title 28 of the U.S.C. Revisited, 25 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 1, 10 (1998)).
11 Id.
12 Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., 542 U.S. 241, 264–65 (2004).
13 Del Valle Ruiz, supra note 1 at 533.
14 Id.
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