Categorical Denial: The Statutory Document Production Requirement Changes A Year Later
January 1, 2021, marks the one-year anniversary of the effective date amending the Code of Civil Procedure requiring that “any documents or category of documents produced in response to a demand for inspection, copying, testing or sampling shall be identified with the specific request number to which the documents respond.”
On November 20, 2020 Judge Margaret L. Oldendorf entered a verdict in favor of plaintiff Nancy Fannin for $2.6 million and against defendant Samantha George, employee of Camden Blaze, LLC. Plaintiff, a pedestrian, was struck by a rental vehicle being operated by Samantha George while operating under the course and scope of her employment by Camden Blaze, LLC.