NOREX PETROLEUM LTD. v. CHUBB INS. CO. OF CANADA

No. 04-0281(CKK).

384 F.Supp.2d 45 (2005)

NOREX PETROLEUM LTD, Petitioner, v. CHUBB INSURANCE CO. OF CANADA, et al., Respondent.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 23, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Cooper, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Washington, DC, Bruce S. Marks, Marks & Sokolov, LLC, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner.

Daryl Andrew Libow, Joseph J. Reilly, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, Washington, DC, for Non-Party BP America Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KOLLAR-KOTELLY, District Judge.

This action concerns the ability of a party engaged in foreign litigation to obtain discovery from a domestic non-party where the documents at issue are held in a foreign country by the non-party's foreign parent corporation. At issue is the proper interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 1782, which establishes a mechanism by which United States district courts may provide discovery assistance to litigants in...

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