This article shows how foreign parties entangled in litigation in the United States can receive discovery requests to produce documents located in their home country and that these litigants sometimes invoke their country’s blocking statute to resist production.
The Court ruled the Department of Justice and the USAO deliberately or callously prevented defendants from obtaining funds for their defense that they lawfully would have had absent the government's interference. This opinion includes a discussion of the Thompson Memorandum, and holds the Thompson Memorandum and the USAO's actions caused KPMG to limit and then cut off payment of fees for defense.
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This case law deals with a white employee who brought action against employer and union challenging legality of plan for on-the-job training which mandated a one-for-one quota for minority workers admitted to the program.