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Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 15, 1987No. 85-1695PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The United States, the Republic of France, and 15 other Nations have acceded to the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters, opened for signature, Mar. 18, 1970, 23 U. S. T. 2555, T. I. A. S. No. 7444.1 This Convention — sometimes referred to as the “Hague Convention” or the “Evidence Convention” — prescribes certain procedures by which a judicial authority in one contracting state may request evidence located in another contracting state. The question presented in this case concerns the extent to which a federal district court must employ the…
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- Air France v. SaksSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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