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Servotronics”) and Rolls-Royce PLC (“
Rolls-Royce”). The arbitration was seated in the United Kingdom and conducted under the rules of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
8 Rolls-Royce alleged that Servotronics supplied it with defective engine valves which caused significant damage to engines it manufactured and supplied to The Boeing Company (“
Boeing”) for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
Servotronics filed an application in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois asking the court to issue a subpoena compelling Boeing to produce documents for use in the London-seated arbitration. After the district court granted Servotronics’s
ex parte application, Rolls-Royce and Boeing moved to quash the subpoenas on the basis that Section 1782 does not authorize a court to provide assistance in private foreign arbitrations. The district court granted Rolls-Royce’s and Boeing’s motion, relying on precedent from the Second and Fifth Circ