California Code of Civil Procedure 2025.280 – (a) The service of a deposition notice under Section 2025.240 is …
(a) The service of a deposition notice under Section 2025.240 is effective to require any deponent who is a party to the action or an officer, director, managing agent, or employee of a party to attend and to testify, as well as to produce any document, electronically stored information, or tangible thing for inspection and copying.
(b) The attendance and testimony of any other deponent, as well as the production by the deponent of any document, electronically stored information, or tangible thing for inspection and copying, requires the service on the deponent of a deposition subpoena under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 2020.010).
Terms Used In California Code of Civil Procedure 2025.280
- Action: includes a civil action and a special proceeding of a civil nature. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- Electronically stored information: means information that is stored in an electronic medium. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
(c) A deponent required by notice or subpoena to produce electronically stored information shall provide a means of gaining direct access to, or a translation into a reasonably usable form of, any electronically stored information that is password protected or otherwise inaccessible.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 467, Sec. 2. (AB 2427) Effective January 1, 2017.)