An overview of state e-discovery rules

http://ow.ly/9Xk4E

An article by David Canfield posted on the insidecounsel.com website.

The article states, "The Federal Rules approach tackles e-discovery by listing ESI, in Rule 34, as a discoverable source of information, and also addresses ESI throughout rules 16, 26, 34 and 37. As noted by Thomas Y. Allman in his 2012 article “E-Discovery in Federal and State Courts after the 2006 Federal Amendments,” today:

• 30 states follow the Federal Rules approach in whole or in part
• Texas, Idaho and Mississippi follow an embodiment of the Texas rules approach
• Other states take different approaches that don’t necessary include legislative action."  A link to the referenced article by Thomas Allman is provided by the author.