{"id":818,"date":"2009-07-14T18:11:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullivant.wpengine.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2021-03-21T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T20:34:04","slug":"california-enacts-e-discovery-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/california-enacts-e-discovery-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective Immediately: California Enacts E-Discovery Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Now signed into law, the Electronic Discovery Act (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leginfo.ca.gov\/pub\/09-10\/bill\/asm\/ab_0001-0050\/ab_5_bill_20090629_chaptered.pdf\"><u>AB 5<\/u><\/a>) amends the Code of Civil Procedure to provide detailed rules for discovery of electronically stored information (&#8220;ESI&#8221;) in cases pending in California state courts.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Act, litigants are now expressly permitted to request that other parties produce ESI. Via subpoena, litigants may also obtain ESI from non-parties. The request or subpoena may\u2014but need not\u2014specify a form in which the ESI is to be produced.<\/p>\n<p>If no form is specified in the request or subpoena, the responding party may produce the ESI in the form or forms &#8220;in which it is ordinarily maintained or in a form that is reasonably usable.&#8221; A responding party need not produce the same ESI in more than one form. At the request and expense of the requesting party, the responding party must, &#8220;through detection devices, translate any data compilations . . . into a reasonably usable form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The responding party may object if the requested ESI is from &#8220;a source that is not reasonably accessible because of undue burden or expense.&#8221; A court may overrule such an objection but impose conditions upon the discovery, &#8220;including allocation of the expense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Act provides remedies for inadvertent disclosure of ESI that is subject to attorney-client privilege or work product protection. It also provides that parties and their attorneys may not be sanctioned for failure to produce ESI that has been lost or overwritten &#8220;as the result of the routine, good faith operation of an electronic information system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though it may not seem &#8220;necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety,&#8221; California has adopted the Act as an &#8220;urgency statute,&#8221; meaning that it takes effect immediately.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Now signed into law, the Electronic Discovery Act (AB 5) amends the Code of Civil Procedure to provide detailed rules for discovery of electronically stored information (&#8220;ESI&#8221;) in cases pending in California state courts. Under the Act, litigants are now expressly permitted to request that other parties produce ESI. Via subpoena, litigants may also obtain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[198],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance-coverage","tag-insights","authorormentioned-samuel-ruby","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}