2021 Georgia Code
Title 9 - Civil Practice
Chapter 11 - Civil Practice Act
Article 5 - Depositions and Discovery
- § 9-11-26. General Provisions Governing Discovery
- § 9-11-27. Depositions Before Action or Pending Appeal
- § 9-11-28. Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken; Disqualification for Interest; Consent of Parties
- § 9-11-29. Stipulations Regarding Discovery Procedure
- § 9-11-29.1. When Depositions and Other Discovery Material Must Be Filed With Court; Custodian Until Filing; Retention of Depositions and Other Discovery Materials
- § 9-11-30. Depositions Upon Oral Examination
- § 9-11-31. Depositions Upon Written Questions
- § 9-11-32. Use of Depositions in Court Proceedings; Effect of Errors and Irregularities in Depositions
- § 9-11-33. Interrogatories to Parties
- § 9-11-34. Production of Documents and Things and Entry Upon Land for Inspection and Other Purposes; Applicability to Nonparties; Confidentiality
- § 9-11-34.1. Civil Actions for Evidence Seized in Criminal Proceedings
- § 9-11-35. Physical and Mental Examination of Persons
- § 9-11-36. Requests for Admission
- § 9-11-37. Failure to Make Discovery; Motion to Compel; Sanctions; Expenses
- Securing attendance of witnesses and production and preservation of evidence generally, T. 24, C. 10.
Discovery in civil actions, Uniform Superior Court Rules, Rule 5.
Discovery and motions in juvenile court cases, Uniform Rules for the Juvenile Courts of Georgia, Rule 7.1 et seq.
Discovery in probate court proceedings, Uniform Rules for the Probate Courts, Rule 5.
Law reviews.- For annual survey on torts law, see 66 Mercer L. Rev. 189 (2014). For annual survey on electronic discovery, see 68 Mercer L. Rev. 971 (2017). For comment, "Jurisdictional, Procedural, and Economic Considerations for Non-Party Electronic Discovery," see 59 Emory L.J. 1339 (2010). For note, "Electronic Discovery in Georgia: Bringing the State Out of the Typewriter Age," 26 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 551 (2010).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Completion of discovery.
- Uniform Superior Court Rule 5 does not require that a party be given six months in which to complete discovery. Alexander v. Macon-Bibb County Urban Dev. Auth. & Urban Properties #47, 257 Ga. 181, 357 S.E.2d 62 (1987).
RESEARCH REFERENCESProof of Basis for, and Grounds for Lifting, Work Product Protection Against Discovery, 39 POF3d 1.
Discovery - Written Interrogatories, 4 Am. Jur. Trials 1.
Discovery - Oral Deposition, 4 Am. Jur. Trials 119.
Request for Admissions by Plaintiff, 4 Am. Jur. Trials 185.
Request for Admissions by Defendant, 4 Am. Jur. Trials 215.
Motions for Production and Inspection, 4 Am. Jur. Trials 223.
Use of Videotape in Civil Trial Preparation and Discovery, 23 Am. Jur. Trials 95.
Trial Court Restrictions on Evidence of Defendant's Wealth, 30 Am. Jur. Trials 711.
Unauthorized Disclosure of Confidential Patient Information, 32 Am. Jur. Trials 105.
Litigation Under the Freedom of Information Act, 50 Am. Jur. Trials 407.
Taking the Deposition of the Sexual Harassment Plaintiff, 65 Am. Jur. Trials 65.
Hidden and Multiple Defendant Tort Litigation, 68 Am. Jur. Trials 503.
How to Conduct International Discovery, 71 Am. Jur. Trials 1.
Surviving and Thriving in the Process of Preparing a Witness for Deposition, 87 Am. Jur. Trials 1.
Litigating Toxic Mold Cases, 91 Am. Jur. Trials 113.
Voir Dire in Low Speed Collision Cases - Plaintiff's View, 96 Am. Jur. Trials 1.
Defending the Worker's Compensation Claim in the Trucking Industry, 99 Am. Jur. Trials 1.
Use of Discovery in Product-Related Burn Injury Cases, 99 Am. Jur. Trials 141.
ALR.- Photographs of civil litigant realized by opponent's surveillance as subject to pretrial discovery, 19 A.L.R.4th 1236.
Absent or unnamed class members in class action in state court as subject to discovery, 28 A.L.R.4th 986.
Discovery of identity of blood donor, 56 A.L.R.4th 755.
Propriety of allowing state court civil litigant to call nonexpert witness whose name or address was not disclosed during pretrial proceedings, 63 A.L.R.4th 712.
Right of defendant in criminal contempt proceeding to obtain information by deposition, 33 A.L.R.5th 761.
Discovery of deleted e-mail and other deleted electronic records, 27 A.L.R.6th 565.
Effect of intersection between discovery rules and international privacy laws, 1 A.L.R.7th 1.
