Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale v. United States District Court For The District Of Alaska

788 F.2d 1408 5 Fed.R.Serv.3d 429 SOCIETE NATIONALE INDUSTRIELLE AEROSPATIALE, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR the DISTRICT OF ALASKA, Respondent, and Sharon Griffis, Personal Representative of the Estate of Daniel D. Doran, Deceased, Real Party In Interest. No. 85-7556. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted March 31, 1986. Decided May 1, 1986. Stephen C. Johnson, Lillick, McHose & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., Patrick T. Brown, Rice, Hoppner, Brown & Brunner, Fairbanks, Alaska, for petitioner. Joseph L. Young, Young & Sanders, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, for respondent. Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. Before ANDERSON, SKOPIL and ALARCON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM. 1 Petitioner Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale ("SNIAS"), a French government-owned corporation named as a defendant in a wrongful death action, seeks a writ of mandamus to require the district court to order the production of documents according to the procedures of an international treaty rather than the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. We deny the petition. 2 In 1982, a pilot and his son died in an…