Magistrate Recommends Denial Of Discovery Assistance To Shanghai Arbitral Tribunal

( August 7, 2024, 9:55 AM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas federal magistrate judge issued a report and recommendation saying that a judge should grant reconsideration and vacate an order granting a Chinese manufacturer’s ex parte application for court assistance in obtaining discovery for an arbitration against a marketing consultant in China, writing that the “private arbitration” falls outside the governing discovery statute....