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EUROMEPA S.A. v. R. ESMERIAN, INC.

No. 606, Docket 94-7523.

51 F.3d 1095 (1995)

In the matter of the Application of EUROMEPA S.A., formerly known as P.N.C. S.A.; successor in interest of Mepa France, S.A. and Allied Insurance & Reinsurance Company, Petitioner-Appellants, v. R. ESMERIAN, INC., Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 20, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constantino P. Suriano, Jeffrey C. Crawford, Mound Cotton and Wollan, New York City, for appellants.

Barton Legum, Merideth M. Brown, Carl Micarelli, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York City, for appellee.

Before: OAKES, JACOBS and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

This case raises the question of the degree to which federal district courts, in deciding whether to order discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) in aid of a foreign litigation, should delve into the mysteries of foreign law.

BACKGROUND

Euromepa, S.A., a French insurance brokerage firm, and Allied Insurance and Reinsurance Company, an affiliated underwriter of commercial risk coverage (hereinafter collectively referred...

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