Assembly Bill A6554

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Prevents abuse during discovery

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A6554 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4850
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd §3103, CPLR

2013-A6554 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prevents abuse during discovery.

2013-A6554 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6554

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, WEINSTEIN, TITONE, HENNESSEY -- (at
  request of the Office  of  Court  Administration)  --  read  once  and
  referred to the Committee on Judiciary

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil  practice  law  and rules, in relation to
  prevention of abuse during discovery

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 3103 of the civil practice law
and rules, as amended by chapter 98 of the laws of 1993, is  amended  to
read as follows:
  (a)  Prevention  of abuse. The court may at any time on its own initi-
ative, or on motion of any party or of any person  from  whom  OR  ABOUT
WHOM  discovery  is  sought,  make a protective order denying, limiting,
conditioning or regulating the use of any disclosure device. Such  order
shall be designed to prevent unreasonable annoyance, expense, embarrass-
ment, disadvantage, or other prejudice to any person or the courts.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
actions pending on such effective date or commenced  on  or  after  such
effective date.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09758-01-3


              

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