The case of the day is Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corp. (N.D. Ill. 2019). Motorola sought a forensic examination of several Hytera computers in China. The court denied the motion for reasons mostly having to with the timeliness of the request, which we need not consider here. But in an extended dictum, the court went on to explain that Motorola had failed to show that ordering the examination would be consistent with Chinese domestic law and that the Aerospatiale factors weighed against allowing the discovery under the FRCP rather than requiring a request under the Hague Evidence Convention.

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