The case of the day is Abdul Latif Jameel Transportation Co. v. FedEx Corp. (6th Cir. 2019). The case is a big deal in the world of § 1782. One of the great open questions is whether a private international arbitral tribunal is a “tribunal” for purposes of the statute. There were some old cases that said “no,” but then came Intel, in which the Supreme Court adopted a functional test for deciding what is an is not a tribunal. People speculated that in light if Intel courts would begin to say that private arbitral tribunals were tribunals for purposes of the statute, but to date, that hasn’t happened at the appellate level. Today’s decision is the first decision of a circuit court, post-Intel…

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