House Bill 1017 is legislation sponsored by the State Bar of Georgia that will formalize the process for discovery of electronically stored information in civil cases around the state. The legislation, which was introduced by Rep. Barry Fleming, R-Harlem, and others, was approved by the bar’s Advisory Committee on Legislation and garnered the support of nearly 75 percent of the voting members of the bar’s board of governors.
While some opponents have called this a “fatally flawed bad bill” because it does not wholesale adopt the parallel federal rules, it is anything but. Instead, it is an attempt to address a complex issue in a reasoned and thoughtful way while being mindful that considerable effort went into the amendments to the federal rules and that Georgia’s courts of general jurisdiction are different from federal courts of limited jurisdiction.
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