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A request for production is a legal request for documents, electronically stored information, or other tangible items made in the course of litigation. In civil procedure, during the discovery phase of litigation, a party to a lawsuit may request that another party provide any documents that it has that pertain to the subject matter of the lawsuit.
A subpoena duces tecum (pronounced in English / s ə ˈ p iː n ə ˌ dj uː s iː z ˈ t iː k ə m / sə-PEE-nə DEW-seez TEE-kəm), or subpoena for production of evidence, is a court summons ordering the recipient to appear before the court and produce documents or other tangible evidence for use at a hearing or trial. In some jurisdictions ...
The Jencks Act was enacted by the United States Congress in response to the 1957 Supreme Court decision in Jencks v. United States,[ 5 ] in which the Court established various rules for the availability and production of statements of prosecution witnesses in federal criminal trials. Clinton Jencks, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1918 ...
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 by means of methods of discovery such as interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for ...
The motion to compel is used to ask the court to order the non-complying party to produce the documentation or information requested, and/or to sanction the non-complying party for their failure to comply with the discovery requests. The United States court system is divided into three systems; federal, tribal, and state.
Reciprocal discovery. 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 ...
Civil procedurein the United States. Civil discovery under United States federal law is wide-ranging and can involve any material which is relevant to the case except information which is privileged, information which is the work product of the opposing party, or certain kinds of expert opinions. (Criminal discovery rules may differ from those ...
However, Florida and some other states already had laws that limited abortions before this ruling. In April, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law legislation that bans abortions after 15 ...