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Subpoena Form. This is a District Of Columbia form and can be use in Superior Court Statewide.
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SUBPOENA
CIVIL DIVISION
500 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Room JIM-170
Telephone (202) 879-1133
Washington, D.C. 20001
SUBPOENA IN A CIVIL CASE
Plaintiff
CASE NUMBER:
Defendant
To:
YOU ARE COMMANDED to appear at the place, date, and time specified below to testify in the above case.
COURTROOM
DATE
TIME
YOU ARE COMMANDED to appear at the place, date, and time specified below to testify at the taking of a deposition
in the above case.
PLACE OF DEPOSITION
DATE
TIME
YOU ARE COMMANDED to produce and permit inspection and copying of the following documents or
objects at the place, date, and time specified below (list documents or objects):
DOCUMENTS OR OBJECTS
PLACE OF PRODUCTlON
DATE
TIME
YOU ARE COMMANDED to permit inspection of the following premises at the date and time specified
below.
PREMISES
DATE
TIME
Any organization not a party to this suit that is subpoenaed for the taking of a deposition shall designate one or more
officers, directors, or managing agents, or other persons who consent to testify on its behalf, and may set forth, for each p r o
es n
designated, the matters on which the person will testify. SCR-CIV 30(b)(6).
ISSUING PERSON’S SIGNATURE AND TITLE (indicate if attorney for plaintiff or defendant)
ISSUING
DATE
PERSON’S NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER
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Authorization as required by D.C. Code 814-307 and Brown v U.S., 567 A. 2d 426 (D.C. 1989). is hereby given for issuance of a subpoena for
medical records concerning a person who has not consented to disclosure of the records and has not waived the privilege relating to such records.
Judge To Whom Case Is Assigned
PROOF OF SERVICE
DATE
TIME
PLACE
SERVED
SERVED
ON
(PRINT
NAME)
MANNER
OF
SERVICE
(attach return receipt if service was made by registered or certified mail)
SERVED BY (PRINT NAME)
TITLE
DECLARATION OF SERVER
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the District of Columbia that I am at least 18 years of age and not a
party to the above entitled cause and that the foregoing information contained in the Proof of Service is true and correct.
Executed on
DATE
SIGNATURE OF SERVER
ADDRESS OF SERVER
RULE 45, SUPERIOR COURT RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, Sections C & D:
(c) Protection of Persons Subject to Subpoenas.
(1) A party or an atmrney responsible for the issuance and service of a subpoena shall take reasonable steps to avoid imposing undue burden
or expense on a person subject to that subpoena. The Court shall enforce this duty and impose upon the party or attorney in breach of this duty an
appropriate sanction, which may include, but is not limited to, lost earnings and reasonable attorney’s fee.
(2)(A) A person commanded to produce and permit inspection and copying of designated books, papers, documents or tangible things or
inspection of premises need not appear in person at the placeof production or inspection unless commanded to appear for deposition, hearing or trial.
(B) Subject to paragraph (d)(2) of this Rule, a person commanded to produce and permit inspectionand copying may, within 14days after
service of the subpoena or before the time specified for compliance if such time is less than 14 days after service, serve upon the party or attorney
designated in the subpoena written objection to inspection or copying of any or all of the designated materials or of the premises. If objection is made, the
party serving the subpoena shall not be entitled to inspect and copy the materials or inspect the premises except pursuant to an order of the Court. If
objection has been made, the party serving the subpoena may, upon notice to the person commanded to produce, move at any time for an order to compel
the production. Such an order to compel production shall protect any person who is not a party or an officer of a party or an officer of a party from
significant expense resulting from the inspection and copying commanded.
(S)(A) On timely motion, the Court shall quash or modify the subpoena if it
(i) fails to allow reasonable time for compliance;
(ii) requires a person who is not a party or an officer of a party to travel to a place more than 25 miles from the place where that
person resides, is employed or regularly transacts business in person, except that, subject to the provisions of clause (c)(S)(b)(iii) of this Rule, such a
person may in order to attend trial be commanded to travel from any such place to the place of trial, or
(iii) requires disclosure of-privileged or other protected matter and no exception or waiver applies, or,
(iv) subjects a person to undue burden.
(B) If a subpoena
(i) requires disclosure of a trade secret or other confidential research, development, or commercial information, or
(ii) requires disclosure of an unretained expert’s opinion or information not describing specificevents or occurances in dispute
and resulting from thfexpert’s
study made not at the request of any party, or
(iii) requires a person who is not a party or an officer of a party to incur substantial expense to travel more than 25 miles to attend
trial, theCourt may, toprotectapersonsubject tooraffected by thesubpoena,quashormodify
thesubpoenaor, if thepartyinwhosebehalf thesubpoena
is issued shows a substantial need for the testimony or material that cannot be otherwise met without undue hardship and assures that the person to
whom the subpoena is addressed will be reasonably compensated, the Court may order appearance or production only upon specified conditions.
(d) Duties in Responding to Subpoena.
(1) A person responding to a subpoena to produce documents shall produce them as they are kept in the usual course of business or shall
organize and label them to correspond with the categories in the demand.
(2) When information subject to a subpoena is withheld on a claim that it is privilegedor subject to protection as trial preparation materials,
the claim shall be made expressly and shall be supported by a description of the nature of the documents, communications, or things not
produced that is sufficient to enable the demanding party to contest the claim.
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