Arnold & Porter Must Give Pakistan Answers About Backup Tapes

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP must provide Pakistan answers about evidence related to an $800 million in an arbitration award, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said.

Arnold & Porter says it doesn’t posses nor has it ever had control of backup tapes of records for its client, Turkish power company Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim A.S. But the law firm may be able to answer Pakistan’s interrogatories, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said.

Providing responses by May 10 won’t require burdensome document recovery, review, or production, the court said.

The extent to which any information about the ...