The Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act (UIDDA) does not require attorneys to retain local counsel in order to domesticate subpoenas across state lines, but practical considerations should have you picking up the phone to engage local representation.
In litigating Corman v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1 MD 2013 (Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court), our firm faced what we initially thought would be the difficult task of domesticating multiple Pennsylvania deposition subpoenas in various jurisdictions throughout the United States. To our relief, we quickly learned that each of the states to which we turned (Indiana, Oregon and South Carolina) had adopted some version of the Uniform Law Commission’s UIDDA.
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