( February 28, 2025, 8:15 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a trial court’s denial of a man’s foreign discovery request under U.S. Code Title 28, Section 1782, finding no abuse of discretion in its holding that the requested materials were only peripherally related to the remaining issue in a Brazilian probate proceeding and an “extremely broad” fishing expedition for an as-yet-unfiled criminal suit over his brother’s alleged hiding of assets....