Amid the angst that surrounded state budget negotiations Monday night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger quietly signed into law California’s first set of electronic discovery regulations.
The new rules, crafted over three years from negotiations among lawmakers, attorneys, Silicon Valley leaders and court administrators, took effect immediately. They largely mirror federal regulations and for the first time offer state litigants specific definitions of what constitutes electronically stored information.
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