Seeking a Protective Order
| by Heather Duncan, Esq.
Under the Civil Discovery Act of 1986, California civil discovery (including the scheduling and taking of depositions) was designed to be essentially “self-executing.” That is, a party demanding discovery doesn’t need prior approval, and a responding party may object instead of providing the requested information. An objection often ends a dispute, but sometimes it doesn’t. When an objection isn’t enough, the next step may be to move the court for a protective order.