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In United States criminal procedure, the Federal government and certain states have reciprocal discovery laws that compel defendants to disclose some information to prosecutors before trial. [1] Within the federal court system, [ 2 ] this material is referred to as reverse Jencks Act material , after the United States Supreme Court case which ...
Civil rights cases concluded in U.S. district courts, by disposition, 1990–2006 [1]. Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a phase of pretrial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from other parties.
Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., 542 U.S. 241 (2004), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving 28 U.S.C. § 1782, which authorizes United States district courts to enforce discovery requests made in connection with litigation being conducted in foreign tribunals.
That ruling means Walters must file a response to the original lawsuit, allowing the case to move into the discovery phase. That must be completed by March 15, according to court documents. Friot ...
In essence, Intel held that section 1782 discovery is available to a non-US litigant almost as freely as discovery is available in connection with a lawsuit that is pending entirely before a court in the United States. Section 1782 has received great attention in recent years, following Intel.
Discovery procedures for defendants began with adoption of state laws in the 1920s. [2] In the following decades, courts began instituting new procedures. In 1962, for example, the California Supreme Court ordered reciprocal discovery rules, without an initial law requiring it. [ 3 ]
A Florida judge ruled against the motion filed by the members of the Pulitzer Prize Board, allowing President Trump's legal team to proceed to discovery in his defamation lawsuit.
Investors are calling foul over Warner Bros. Discovery's loss of its NBA media rights deal. A lawsuit filed this week in New York federal court alleges that shareholders suffered "significant ...