( October 5, 2026, 11:49 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its Oct. 5 orders list, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a certiorari petition in which a doctor and medical practice argued that allowing “pre-suit discovery” wrongly transforms the statute governing discovery in aid of foreign proceedings into “a weapon for would-be private foreign plaintiffs against U.S. residents”; opposing the petition, the respondent had countered that the statute “permits discovery for use in a reasonably contemplated foreign proceeding, regardless of whether some potential pre-cursor ‘administrative or quasi-judicial proceeding [is] already underway.’”...