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(Slip Opinion) 

OCTOBER  TERM,  2021 

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

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ZF AUTOMOTIVE US, INC., ET AL. v. LUXSHARE, LTD. 

CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT TO THE UNITED STATES 
COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT 

No. 21–401.  Argued March 23, 2022—Decided June 13, 2022* 

These  consolidated  cases  involve  arbitration  proceedings  abroad  for 
which  a  party  sought  discovery  in  the  United  States  pursuant  to  28 
U. S. C. §1782(a)—a provision authorizing a district court to order the
production of evidence “for use in a proceeding in a foreign or interna-
tional tribunal.”  In the first case, Luxshare, Ltd., a Hong Kong-based 
company, alleges fraud in a sales transaction with ZF Automotive US,
Inc., a Michigan-based automotive parts manufacturer and subsidiary 
of a German corporation.  The sales contract signed by the parties pro-
vided  that  all  disputes  would  be  resolved by  three  arbitrators  under 
the  Arbitration  Rules  of  the  German  Institution  of  Arbitration  e.V. 
(DIS),  a  private  dispute-resolution  organization  based  in  Berlin.  To 
prepare for a DIS arbitration against ZF, Luxshare filed an application
under §1782 in federal court, seeking information from ZF and its of-
ficers.  The District Court granted the request, and ZF moved to quash,
arguing that the DIS panel was not a “foreign or international tribu-
nal” under §1782.  The District Court denied ZF’s motion.  The Sixth 
Circuit denied a stay.   

The  second  case  involves  AB  bankas  SNORAS  (Snoras),  a  failed 
Lithuanian  bank  declared  insolvent  and  nationalized  by  Lithuanian 
authorities.  The Fund for Protection of Investors’ Rights in Foreign
States—a Russian corporation assigned the rights of a Russian inves-
tor in Snoras—initiated a proceeding against Lithuania under a bilat-
eral investment treaty between Lithuania and Russia, claiming that 

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* Together with No. 21–518, AlixPartners, LLP, et al. v. Fund for Pro-
tection of Investors’ Rights in Foreign States, on certiorari to the United 
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.