In Re Request for Assistance From Ministry of Legal Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago Petition of Joseph Azar

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• holding that the district court should deny the request if the district court \suspects that the request is a `fishing expedition' or a vehicle for harassment\
• holding that the district court should deny the request if the district court “suspects that the request is a ‘fishing expedition’ or a vehicle for harassment”
• \the district court must decide whether the evidence would be discoverable in the foreign country before granting assistance\
• \Congress has given the district courts broad discretion in granting judicial assistance to foreign countries.\
• “the district court must decide whether the evidence would be discoverable in the foreign country before granting assistance”
• \the district court must decide whether the evidence would be discoverable in the foreign country before granting assistance\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).