Seventh Circuit: District Court Erred in Ordering Relocation of Deposition of Foreign Defendant's Employees as Sanction | Practical Law
In In re Pradaxa (Dabigatran Etexilate) Products Liability Litigation, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the district court's order relocating a deposition of foreign employees from Amsterdam to the United States. The relocation order was a sanction meant to punish the defendant's discovery abuses, but the Seventh Circuit held that the foreign employees cannot be forced to travel to the US to be deposed.