Court Judicial Decision: Dotcom v The United States of America: 17 October 2014

[1] The United States of America is seeking the extradition of Messrs Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and Van Der Kolk. The matter has been before the Courts on numerous occasions, and no further recitation of the facts is needed. It is convenient to standardise descriptions so in this judgment the party seeking extradition (United States of America) will be referred to as the applicant, and the persons whose extradition is sought will be called the respondents.

[2] This judgment has as its background two applications made by the respondents to the extradition court (the District Court) requesting it to make discovery orders against various New Zealand government agencies, Ministers and departments. The District Court declined and the respondents are seeking judicial review of that decision.

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