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Complete guide, with law, text, annotated forms and procedural guides to every phase of discovery in civil trial cases. In-depth, practical coverage includes:
• General discovery concepts - planning, time limits and motion procedures
• Scope of discovery - privileges and other protected matters
• Methods of obtaining discovery under the Civil Discovery Act
of 1986 - depositions, interrogatories, inspections, examinations, requests for admission, exchange of expert witness information
• Charts listing when sanctions are available and when statutory time periods may be shortened or extended
• Procedural guides and forms that are easy to use and to copy
• Appendices offering the complete text of Discovery Act, pertinent Evidence Code sections, and related California
• Rules of Court, as well as a summary of discovery rules arising out of the trial court delay reduction program
• Detailed index, tables of cases and statutes
Convenient cross-referencing to California Points and Authorities
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Table of contents
DIVISION I CIVIL DISCOVERY IN GENERAL
CHAPTER 1 Overview of California Civil Discovery
CHAPTER 2 Planning Discovery
CHAPTER 2A Discovery of Electronically Stored
Information in California Courts (E-Discovery)
CHAPTER 3 Time Limits on Discovery
CHAPTER 4 Discovery in Proceedings Other Than Civil
Actions
CHAPTER 5 Discovery in Limited Civil Cases
CHAPTER 6 Discovery Outside California
CHAPTER 7 Discovery in Federal Actions
Compared
CHAPTER 8 General Procedures for Discovery Motions
and Shortening or Extending Time
CHAPTER 9 Review of Discovery Orders
DIVISION II MATTERS SUBJECT TO CIVIL
DISCOVERY
PART A Scope of Discovery
CHAPTER 20 Scope of Discovery
PART B Privileged and Other Protected Matters
CHAPTER 21 Privileged Matters in General
CHAPTER 22 Privilege Against Self-Incrimination
CHAPTER 23 Spousal Privileges
CHAPTER 24 Physician-Patient Privilege
CHAPTER 25 Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege
CHAPTER 26 Official Information and Related
Privileges
CHAPTER 27 Attorney-Client Privilege
CHAPTER 28 Attorney Work Product Protection
CHAPTER 29 News Media Confidential Source Privilege
CHAPTER 30 Right to Privacy
CHAPTER 31 Health Care Quality Control Committee
Protections
CHAPTER 32 Miscellaneous Privileges
DIVISION III METHODS OF CIVIL
DISCOVERY
PART A In General
CHAPTER 40 Methods of Discovery
CHAPTER 41 Regulation of Discovery Methods
CHAPTER 42 Sanctions for Misuse of Discovery Process
PART B Depositions
CHAPTER 50 Depositions in General
CHAPTER 51 Oral Depositions
CHAPTER 52 Written Depositions
CHAPTER 53 Deposition of Nonparty
PART C Other Discovery Methods
CHAPTER 60 Interrogatories
CHAPTER 61 Demand for Inspection of Documents,
Things, and Land
CHAPTER 62 Physical and Mental Examinations
CHAPTER 63 Requests for Admission
CHAPTER 64 Exchange of Expert Trial Witness
Information
CHAPTER 65 Perpetuation of Testimony and
Preservation of Evidence
DIVISION IV APPENDICES
APPENDIX A Text of Statutes
APPENDIX B Text of Related California Rules of Court
APPENDIX C Correlation Tables