The act of requesting tangible documents or information stored electronically is referred to as a request for production. In the civil procedure, during the discovery time of litigation, a party to a lawsuit might ask for any document from the party that pertains to the lawsuit’s matter. In December 2006, amended Federal Rules governing the conduct of litigation in the United States courts. Discovery of electronically stored information (ESI): word files, databases, PowerPoint presentations, and e-mails are addressed by the new rules (Eckart, 2017). The new rules need the lawyers and their clients to facilitate the exchange of information stored electronically with limited judicial intervention. The new rules require that involved parties be ready to discuss electronic discovery matters at the conception of litigation (Wolfe, 2015). Requirement for an advance strategizing of any requirement imposed by the rules is strengthened by Rule 26(a)(1)(B), which changed to require that a group identity in its first declaration to the other party the ESI it will use to support its shield and claims in the litigation.
Texas has acquired a particular rule for processing electronically stored information. Texas Rules of Civil Procedure states that for parties to achieve the discovery of information or data contained in magnetic or electronic form, the party soliciting must specifically solicit production of magnetic or electronic data and clarify the state in which the soliciting party wants it produced. The retaliating part should make the magnetic or electronic information receptive to the demand (Wang, 2019). If the retaliating party cannot retrieve the information requested, the responding party must give an objection observing the rules.
