Abstract
This Article uses LIV Golf Inc. v. PGA Tour, Inc., a sophisticated and headline-grabbing antitrust matter, as a means of instantiating federal civil procedure concepts. The first Part of this Article addresses the unsuccessful motion for a temporary restraining order that in many ways shaped how the litigation proceeded. The second Part examines the dance that is discovery through a focus on a drawn-out dispute regarding a single interrogatory. The final Part drills down on a more novel discovery dispute that began the path towards settlement, namely whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 and related common-law doctrine insulated two third parties based in Saudi Arabia from discovery obligations in the United States. The Article concludes that, although the settlement of the case was superficially a front-page surprise, it was actually the inevitable result of procedure. Created both to inspire assignments and be assignable, this is an Article written with the classroom in mind.
Recommended Citation
Michael J. Dube,
The LIV Golf v. PGA Tour Antitrust Case as a Case Study in Federal Civil Procedure,
129
Dick. L. Rev.
125
(2024).
Available at:
https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/dlr/vol129/iss1/4
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