Supplemental discovery rules.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 12

(a) (b) (1) At the meet and confer, the parties must use reasonable efforts to develop a Joint Discovery Plan that should contain the following elements: (i) The subjects on which discovery may be needed, when discovery should be completed, and whether discovery should be conducted in phases or be limited to, or focused on, particular issues; (ii) Any issues about disclosure, discovery, or preservation of electronically stored information (ESI), including the form or forms in which it should be produced; (iii) Provisions regarding any anticipated discovery of nonparties; (iv) Whether depositions are anticipated and the appropriate limits on the taking of such depositions, consistent with paragraph (e)(1) of this section, including the maximum number of depositions to be allowed; (v) The anticipated timing of the production of any document identifying and describing privileged documents that a party intends to redact or withhold from production; and (vi) Provisions regarding any inadvertent disclosure of privileged information. (2) The Joint Discovery Plan must comply with the provisions of this section and § 308.24. (3) The parties must submit their proposed Joint Discovery Plan to the ALJ for review, modification, and/or approval. In the event the parties cannot agree to some or all of the provisions, the parties must file their respective proposals with the ALJ for resolution. After review, the ALJ must issue an approved Joint Discovery Plan, which must include any modifica

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 12:§ 308.107