AMERICAN HOME ASSURANCE CO. v. SOCIÉTÉ COMMERCIALE TOTÉLECTRIC

No. A093974.

128 Cal.Rptr.2d 430 (2002)

104 Cal.App.4th 406

AMERICAN HOME ASSURANCE COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. SOCIÉTÉ COMMERCIALE TOTÉLECTRIC, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 2003.

Review Denied April 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thelen Reid & Priest; Curtis A. Cole, Los Angeles; Richard A. Lapping, San Francisco; Torgny Nilsson, Los Angeles; Aaron Danzer, San Francisco; Eumi Lee; Counsel for Appellant and Defendant: Societe Commerciale Toutelectric.

Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard; David E. Reynolds; Kenneth D. Watnick; Los Angeles, Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent: American Home Assurance Company and AIU Insurance Company.

Hellring, Lindeman, Goldstein & Siegal; Stephen L. Dreyfuss; John A. Adler, Laguna Beach; Counsel for Amicus Curiae: French-American Chamber of Commerce in the United States, Inc.


PARRILLI, J.

In Soc. Nat. Ind. Aero. v. U.S. Dist. Court (1987) 482 U.S. 522, 107 S.Ct. 2542, 96 L.Ed.2d 461 (Aerospatiale), the United States Supreme Court rejected the idea that discovery in a foreign country subscribing to the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters ("the Hague Convention") must first proceed under the Hague Convention...

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