Legal Opinion
Kapon v. Koch
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 3, 2014PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Pigott, J.
This appeal involves the service of a subpoena by a party seeking discovery from a nonparty pursuant to CPLR 3101 (a) (4), the subpoenaing party’s notice obligation to a nonparty under that statutory provision, and the witness’s burden when moving to quash the subpoena. We conclude that the subpoenaing party must first sufficiently state the “circumstances or reasons” underlying the subpoena (either on the face of the subpoena itself or in a notice accompanying it), and the witness, in moving to quash, must establish either that the discovery sought is “utterly…
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