Lang v. Oklahoma

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• finding that codification of secrecy obligations into criminal law was indicative of substantial foreign interest
• explaining that additional factors were product of international comity inquiry adopted by Second Circuit, which was \derived from Section 40 of the Restatement (Second) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (1965)\
• noting “reduced degree of importance of the requested discovery in light of’ other information produced
• contrasting a higher U.S. interest in compelling disclosure in suits “infused with the public interest,” such as those involving “antitrust, commodities, and racketeering statutes”
• declining to order discovery in part because the objecting party was “no longer a primary defendant ... and stands, instead, as to the plaintiffs, in the posture of a non-party witness”
• declining to order discovery in part because the objecting party was “no longer a primary defendant ... and stands, instead, as to the plaintiffs, in the posture of a non-party witness”

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