Jessica Weisel

Jessica Weisel

August 03, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Supreme Court To Decide If International Commercial Arbitrations Are 'Foreign or International Tribunals' to Whom U.S. Federal Courts Can Provide Discovery Assistance

In their Arbitration column, Samuel Estreicher, Rex Heinke and Jessica Weisel discuss a case that will be before the U.S. Supreme Court in the October term, 'Servotronics v. Rolls-Royce PLC', which asks the court to resolve a circuit split over the role, if any, that federal courts should play in facilitating discovery in foreign arbitrations. In what looks like a simple matter of statutory interpretation—defining the term "tribunal"—the case may shed new light on how the current court approaches traditional interpretive tools.

By Samuel Estreicher, Rex Heinke and Jessica Weisel

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