Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale v. United States District Court

French corporation SNIA (defendant, party seeking a protective order), sued by American plaintiffs, moved for a protective order arguing that discovery from it as a foreign entity could only proceed under the Hague Evidence Convention's specific procedures, or at minimum that plaintiffs had to try those procedures first before resorting to ordinary FRCP discovery; the district court disagreed and denied the protective order.