#A&A UNIFORMS LAS VEGAS PLUS#
One potential plus for lawyers in Nevada: once Nevada attorneys become familiar with Nevada’s new procedures for processing out-of-state subpoenas under the Uniform Act, it will make it that much easier to conduct non-party discovery in the other jurisdictions that have passed their own versions of the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act. No doubt the effective date of October 1st was designed to allow the clerks of the various county courts time to prepare their own forms and local procedures for processing foreign subpoenas – including, no doubt, court fees. The Act directs the county court clerks to “promptly” issue a subpoena “for service upon the person to which the foreign subpoena is directed.” This does not mean that the court itself serves the subpoena rather, the subpoena will be issued by the court for the attorney to serve. territories as “foreign”) must then submit the subpoena to the clerk of the court for that county and request the clerk to “issue” the subpoena. The “foreign” attorney (the Act defines the other 49 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. the residence of a Nevada witness or the headquarters of a Nevada company). Under the Act, an attorney practicing in another state’s jurisdiction seeking to issue a subpoena in Nevada must first identify the county in which the discovery will be sought (i.e. Once Nevada’s Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act goes into effect on October 1st, answering the question, “Do I have to respond to this subpoena?,” will become much more straightforward. In so doing, Nevada joined fifteen other states and the District of Columbia in enacting the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act. Sponsored by Nevada Assemblyman Richard “Tick” Segerblom, a seasoned Nevada labor and employment attorney, the Act was passed by the Nevada Legislature and signed into law by Gov. The result? A relatively straightforward Uniform Act that allows attorneys handling lawsuits in other states to serve non-party discovery subpoenas efficiently on individuals and businesses located in jurisdictions that have adopted the Act. Wishing to create a uniform act allowing out-of-state subpoenas to be issued pursuant to “a procedure that can be easily and efficiently followed, that has a minimum of judicial oversight and intervention, that is cost-effective for the litigants, and is fair to the deponents,” the Commissioners relied heavily on Rule 45 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. It should come as no surprise then that the Uniform Foreign Depositions Act gained approval of only thirteen states (including Nevada), while the Uniform Interstate and International Procedure Act was ultimately adopted by only six states. While its two precursors (the Uniform Foreign Depositions Act and the Uniform Interstate and International Procedure Act) did address witness subpoenas and document production by non-parties, they were silent as to the inspection of premises and involved rather cumbersome procedures. In drafting the new proposed Uniform Act, the Commissioners paid special attention to the multiple functions of subpoenas: (i) to secure witness depositions (ii) to obtain documents and other information and (iii) to gain entry for the inspection of premises. Proposed in 2007 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act was drafted in response to criticism that prior uniform foreign discovery acts were incomplete and out-of date. Does the client really have to respond to this pesky subpoena from North Dakota?īeginning Octothe answer in Nevada will be “yes,” but only if the subpoena complies with Nevada’s New Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act (2011 AB 97) and with Rule 45 of the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure. One thing they all have in common: subpoenas threaten dire legal consequences if compliance is not thorough and swift.īut does an individual or company in Nevada have to comply with an out-of-state subpoena involving a matter pending in another state’s courts to which the client is not a party? After all, the client is not a party to the lawsuit, and may not have operations in the state from which the subpoena was issued. Sometimes the subpoena seeks employment records of current or former employees at other times it may seek information on the client’s processes, procedures and even confidential client lists. These subpoenas often seem, at first blush, to have nothing to do with the client. From time to time, attorneys get calls from clients who have just received scary-looking subpoenas “commanding” them, in ALL CAPS, to produce documents in legal proceedings pending in other states.
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