In Re Letters of Request to Examine Witnesses From the Court of Queen's Bench for Manitoba, Canada. (Two Cases). Manitoba Commission of Inquiry, Applicant-Appellee v. James L. Zeigler, Witness-Appellee. Manitoba Commission of Inquiry, Applicant-Appellee v. James L. Zeigler, Witness-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 511 · 1973
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2002
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1782
Relies on In re Letters of Request to Examine Witnesses from the Court of Queen's Bench for Manitoba, Canada
Most-quoted passages
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““After a full consideration of the arguments raised by counsel in their briefs and at the hearing on the matter, it is the Court’s judgment that § 1782 was not intended to and does not authorize the United States courts to compel testimony on behalf of foreign governmental bodies whose purpose is to conduct investigations unrelated to judicial or quasi-judicial controversies.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The District Court of the district in which a person resides or is found may order him to give his testimony or statement or to provide a document or other thing for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal. The order may be made pursuant to a letter rogatory issued, or request made by a foreign or international tribunal or upon the application of any interested person and may direct that the testimony or statement be given or the document or other thing be produced, before a person appointed by the court....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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