The Bank of Lithuania appointed Freakley as the temporary administrator of AB Bankas Snoras in late 2011. The respondent, The Fund for Protection of Investor Rights in Foreign States, initiated arbitration in April 2019 following Lithuania's decision to nationalize the Lithuanian bank, AB Bankas Snoras. The petition asked the justices to overturn the Second Circuit's grant of discovery to a Russian investors' rights organization for use in its arbitration against the Republic of Lithuania. The Fund for Protection of Investor Rights in Foreign States, counsel for third-party defendants-appellants AlixPartners, LLP, a consulting firm in New York, and Simon Freakley, the firm's CEO, filed an emergency motion in the Second Circuit seeking a stay pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court. Rolls-Royce PLC et al.- the case previously accepted by the Court in deciding this issue - settled and withdrew the action from the Court's docket. federal courts to order entities in their districts to produce evidence for use before a "foreign or international tribunal." The Court's most recent decision comes just months after the parties in Servotronics Inc. On December 10, the Court agreed to hear a pair of petitions stemming from the Second and Sixth Circuits asking to determine whether Section 1782 allows the U.S. § 1782(a) (Section 1782) applies to private, commercial international arbitrations after all. Supreme Court will resolve the circuit split concerning whether 28 U.S.C.
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