( September 10, 2026, 9:24 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a certiorari petition that has been distributed for the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sept. 28 conference, the petitioners argue 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”; the respondent counters 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.’”...