A Rule 30 deposition notice in United States District Court is the topic of this blog post.
Rule 30 refers to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30 which authorizes the use of depositions in Federal Court. Rule 30 also states that the deposing party may also request production of documents of any party to the action at the deposition under Rule 34. This blog post will briefly discuss serving a notice of deposition on a party to the action who is a natural person.
If you are a party to civil litigation in United States District Court and you wish to take the oral deposition of any other party to the action you should very carefully review Rule 30 as it contains numerous specific requirements that must be followed. These rules include but are not limited to, requirements that the party not seek to take the deposition before the time specified in Rule 26(d), that the party seeking to take the deposition give reasonable written notice to every other party to the action as well as include the name and address of the deponent if that is available as well as the date, time and location of the deposition on the notice of deposition.
Any party requesting production of documents should be sure to describe the requested documents with as much detail as possible.
Failure to comply with the requirements or failure to include the required information in the deposition notice may result in an objection being made by another party to the action or the deponent.
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