AMERICA ONLINE, INC. v. NAM TAI ELECTRONICS, INC.

Record No. 012761.

571 S.E.2d 128 (2002)

264 Va. 583

AMERICA ONLINE, INC., v. NAM TAI ELECTRONICS, INC.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 1, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura A. Heymann, for appellant.

Jon M. Talotta (Michael J. Quinn; Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., LACY, HASSELL, KOONTZ, KINSER, and LEMONS, JJ., and STEPHENSON, S.J.


Opinion by Justice LAWRENCE L. KOONTZ, JR.

In this appeal and in the context of the Uniform Foreign Depositions Act, Code § 8.01-411 through -412.1 (UFDA), we consider whether a Virginia trial court properly applied principles of comity in refusing to quash a subpoena duces tecum obtained under a commission for out-of-state discovery issued by a California trial court.

BACKGROUND

On January 26, 2001, Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. (Nam Tai) filed...

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