United States Ninth Circuit

A complaint before the European Commission's Directorate General of Competition, based on abuse of a dominant market position, was a "proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal" under 28 U.S.C. section 1782, permitting the use of domestic discovery without a showing that the requested discovery would be discoverable in the foreign tribunal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/15/2002
• Decided 06/06/2002
• Published 06/06/2002

Judges

• Before HAWKINS and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick Lynch,O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, CA, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Cooper, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA, for respondent-appellee.