California Discovery Law
In California, discovery laws are designed to ensure complete disclosure of information pertinent to a legal case and are covered by the Code of Civil Procedure, Civil Discovery Act.
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Requests
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In California, a party responding to a request is only required to answer the request with information it knows to be true at the time of a request. It does not need to provide an update at a later date unless specifically requested.
Depositions
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Unlike other states, a California deposition can last more than one day. Additionally, any objection must be made in detail.
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Interrogatories
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California's rules on interrogatories are comparatively strict. A party can submit no more than 35 interrogatories to a particular party. The interrogatories cannot include subsections, and detailed instructions must be approved by a judge.
E-Discovery
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Until 2009, California did not have a set of rules to cover the discovery of electronic information. Subsequently, the rules are largely identical to federal standards, California extends safe-harbor protections to the alteration, overwriting or corruption of information during the routine use of computer systems.
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