Discovery is a legal tool each party can use to strengthen their case. Through discovery you may receive new information and documents."Discovery" is a process you can use before your trial to find out information from another party. There are several ways to ask the other party questions. Send a notice to the court that you have sent out a request for discovery (propounded discovery) or that you have responded to the discovery request. In many civil actions, before the case is resolved there takes place a process known as pretrial discovery. This summary describes this process. Each of these Parts is further divided into two sections: discovery in federal cases and discovery in New York state cases. B. Civil Discovery. 1. Introduction. This document is a notice of discovery and inspection from plaintiff KCM Realty Company to defendant New Ram Realty.