5717-1-11 Discovery.

 

 

 

5717-1-11                    Discovery.

 

 

 

(A)     Discovery may be permitted by deposition upon oral examination or written questions; written interrogatories; production of documents or tangible things or permission to enter upon land or other property; and requests for admissions. The "Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure," effective July 1, 2006 2008, shall be followed for discovery purposes to the extent they are not inconsistent with other board rules. The Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure are generally available at a public library, legal library, or on the web at www.sconet.state.oh.us/rules/civil www.sconet.state.oh.us/Rules/civil/CivilProcedure.pdf. Discovery shall be subject to the following limitations:

 

(1)    Discovery should be commenced by all parties promptly after the filing of a notice of appeal and should be completed as expeditiously as possible. Discovery should be completed not more than one hundred twenty days after the filing of the notice of appeal, which shall also be the last day for a party to seek involvement of the board in discovery matters. Upon motion and for good cause, the board may establish other specific times for completion of discovery or consideration of discovery motions.

 

(2)   The board expects all counsel to provide for orderly, mutual discovery, freely exchanging discoverable information and documents. Counsel shall make all reasonable efforts to resolve discovery disputes by extra-judicial means, without intervention by the assigned attorney examiner. To the extent counsel may not resolve such disputes, then they may seek intervention of the attorney examiner to supervise discovery.

 

(3)    Answers, objections or other responses to discovery requests shall be served within twenty-eight days after service of such requests unless the  board orders or the parties agree to a different period of time. Depositions, interrogatories, and admissions shall not be filed with the board, unless the party intends to offer such discovery documents as evidence in a hearing; and in such event, such discovery documents shall be filed at least one day prior to the hearing.

 

(4)   Any motion concerning discovery shall include only those specific portions of the discovery documents necessary for resolution of the motion and include counsel's statement describing all extra-judicial efforts undertaken to effect discovery.

 

(5)    An expert may not be permitted to testify if he or she has not been timely identified prior to hearing. The parties may mutually agree to the exchange of any written reports of expert witnesses to be relied upon by them. Additionally, an expert's report or portions thereof may be excluded from evidence if the report was not made available in a timely fashion to complete

 

 

a mutually agreed exchange of reports. In all events, the identity of the expert and the written valuation reports shall be provided to counsel at least fourteen days prior to hearing, except as otherwise ordered by the attorney examiner, and the written valuation reports shall be provided to counsel at least seven days prior to hearing, except as otherwise ordered by the attorney examiner.

(B)  No hearing will be continued for purposes of discovery unless good cause is shown.

(C)  Cost of discovery shall be paid by the party requesting such discovery.

(D)     Upon the motion of a party and for good cause shown, the board may issue a protective order restricting discovery of a trade secret or other confidential research, development or commercial information.

Effective:                                                     02/01/2009

CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY

Certification

01/13/2009

Date

Promulgated Under:                           5703.14

Statutory Authority:                           R.C. 5703.14

Rule Amplifies:                                  R.C. 5703.02

Prior Effective Dates:                         10/20/1977, 3/24/1989, 5/17/1990, 3/1/1996,

1/14/2005, 6/15/2007