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Don’t let state lines inhibit your discovery process in state-court litigation. You simply need to know where to start.
Do you want to obtain evidence or testimony in Georgia? Read this article: Best Practices for Issuing Subpoenas: Depositions of Georgia Residents in Cases Pending Out of State. I have also put together an Out-of-State Subpoena Toolkit with my resources on the Georgia procedure.
Need evidence or testimony elsewhere? Read my article identifying the citations for each state: Obtaining Out-of-State Evidence for State Court Civil Litigation: Where to Start?
Here are my four practice pointers:
And below are all posts on out-of-state subpoenas.
After not passing last year as HB 917, a version of the UIDDA (Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act) was introduced yesterday in the House as HB 46. The proposed Act is set to be effective July 1, 2011. Although this version includes the UIDDA, it still includes language very similar to the UFDA (Uniform [...]
We like to stick with the familiar, so when attorneys are called to go out of their state and figure out the procedure to issue a subpoena, it can be daunting. What’s the procedure? What’s the cost? And so they wait to see if they really need that evidence. But too often I get calls [...]
A Georgia witness has no excuse to ignore a subpoena based simply on the fact that the case is pending outside Georgia. That’s the shortest answer I can give. Both federal and Georgia law allow parties in cases pending in other states to obtain testimony and documents from nonparty witnesses outside that state. But you [...]
To conclude the series, I end with where I start. Practice Pointer No. 4: Read the rules. Follow the rules. Then accept the gray areas. It doesn’t matter how many times I have helped out-of-state attorneys have subpoenas issued and served in Georgia. Every time I read the rules. I have the commission, the notice [...]
In the three years since my article Best Practices for Issuing Subpoenas: Depositions of Georgia Residents in Cases Pending Out of State was published, I’ve been helping out-of-state counsel issue, serve, and enforce out-of-state subpoenas. And almost every case teaches me something new. I began this series with Practice Pointer No. 1: It is Georgia [...]
In the three years since my article Best Practices for Issuing Subpoenas: Depositions of Georgia Residents in Cases Pending Out of State was published, I’ve been helping out-of-state counsel issue, serve, and enforce out-of-state subpoenas. And almost every case teaches me something new. I began the series with Practice Pointer No. 1: It is Georgia [...]
In the three years since my article Best Practices for Issuing Subpoenas: Depositions of Georgia Residents in Cases Pending Out of State was published, I’ve continued helping out-of-state counsel issue, serve, and enforce out-of-state subpoenas. And I learn something new and refine this area of my practice with almost every case. I’ll be sharing some [...]
Georgia’s legislative session ended without HB 917 being adopted. Although it passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, no further action was taken. The State Bar of Georgia supported this bill, and its legislative update (no longer available online) simply noted that the bill did not make it on the calendar for Senate action. The last version [...]
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