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Washington – September 2, 2020: Robert Hager, Charbel Maakaron, Michael Guiffré, and Meagan Bachman will be joining Crowell & Moring as partners, a move that will expand the firm’s global infrastructure, international dispute resolution and litigation capabilities. As part of their arrival, the firm plans to launch an office in Doha with an additional team of eight lawyers.

Can a technology company be found liable for allegedly aiding and abetting terrorism based on a terrorist organization’s use of the company’s general online platform? In Twitter v. Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google, the Supreme Court answered: generally, no.

Can a party in an international arbitration compel a person in the United States to provide testimony or produce documents? For decades, the answer to this question has been “maybe, depending on where the person is located.” Today, the Supreme Court definitively and unanimously answered this question, and the answer may leave some pleased and others disappointed.

The highly anticipated Supreme Court case Servotronics v. Rolls-Royce PLC and Boeing was expected to finally resolve the Circuit split regarding whether U.S. courts may order and compel discovery to aid in international commercial arbitrations under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. In a disappointment to practitioners and courts alike, the petitioner in Servotronics stipulated to the dismissal of its petition ahead of scheduled oral arguments, leaving the issue unresolved and forcing parties to continue navigating disparate jurisdictions. Fortunately, it appears that the Supreme Court will not lack new opportunities to provide clarity, as parties race to file similar petitions on the issue.

Please join members of Crowell & Moring’s Infrastructure Team for a webinar that will explore some of the lessons learned through our experience handling major infrastructure disputes.  We will cover issues such as: