It is an old saw that partners, co-venturers, and insiders to closely held businesses owe fiduciary duties of loyalty and due care when dealing with one another. Importantly, these fiduciary duties modify the common law of fraud by imposing an affirmative duty upon the fiduciary to disclose material facts to the beneficiary, which, if breached,
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Second Circuit Gives Green Light to Foreign Litigants Seeking Discovery in the U.S.
By Sydney Kaplan on
As cross-border business continues to grow, litigation too is increasingly crossing borders. In a recent decision addressing several issues of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opted to aid international litigants, interpreting Section 1782 of Chapter 28 of the United States Code to allow discovery in aid of foreign proceedings…