Indiana Requests for Production of Documents and Things
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The process of delivering, or making available for review, documents produced during litigation or in response to a request for documents from a regulatory or other body. Discoverable documents in litigation may include both paper (hard copy) documents and electronically stored information (ESI).
A Request for Production (also known as a Demand for Inspection) asks the other side to produce and allow copying or inspection and measuring of a document or thing.
(A) If an arrestee does not present a substantial risk of flight or danger to themselves or others, the court should release the arrestee without money bail or surety subject to such restrictions and conditions as determined by the court except when: (1) The arrestee is charged with murder or treason.
A Request for Production (also known as a Demand for Inspection) asks the other side to produce and allow copying or inspection and measuring of a document or thing.
D. Limits on Request for Production of Documents: In any initial cause of action, a party may not serve more than twenty-five (25) requests for productions of documents, including subparts, on another party.
Common objections to requests for production or inspection include: The request is overly broad or unduly burdensome. ... The request is vague, ambiguous, or unintelligible. ... The request is not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of relevant, admissible evidence.
A notice to produce documents is different from a subpoena. The former is a request for information, while the latter is a court order to provide testimony.
Rule 34(a) enables a party to produce and permit the requesting party or its representative to inspect, copy, sample, or test any designated documents or ESI?including drawings, writings, graphs, charts, sound recordings, photographs, images, and other data or data compilations.
