Legal Question in Administrative Law in California

Re: Defendant refusing to bring documents

If you're going to 'play lawyer', you're going to have to learn how. Lawyers go to law school after college, take regular MCLE classes, and privately read and study to learn all these things. Start by reading the Civil Code sections that are listed on the pleadings; they are the controlling rules for your current question. Keep in mind that if you don't do all these things correctly, you're creating problems for yourself, and wasting time and money. You're not going to get any help from the court, and you're expected to know all the rules and procedures at every court hearing and trial.

Re: Defendant refusing to bring documents

No. The defendant is only required to make a written response under oath within 30 days (+5 if requests mail-served).

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2031.210. (a) The party to whom an inspection demand has been

directed shall respond separately to each item or category of item by

any of the following:

(1) A statement that the party will comply with the particular

demand for inspection and any related activities.

(2) A representation that the party lacks the ability to comply

with the demand for inspection of a particular item or category of

item.

(3) An objection to the particular demand.

2031.220. A statement that the party to whom an inspection demand

has been directed will comply with the particular demand shall state

that the production, inspection, and related activity demanded will

be allowed either in whole or in part, and that all documents or

things in the demanded category that are in the possession, custody,

or control of that party and to which no objection is being made will

be included in the production.

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So in essence, in the written response she only has to represent that she will produce the stuff, then she makes arrangements for you to come to her office and copy them at your own expense, or she copies them and sends them to you, or allows you to come and examine the tangible things - depending on what's been demanded.

Re: Defendant refusing to bring documents

Mr. Lee's response is correct. I might add that you may be confusing a proper response to a document-production demand, as you made, which does not require (and rarely gets) a personal visit from the party upon whom the demand is made, and a deposition with document production or subpoena duces tecum, both of which require the party or witness to appear with the document for questioning about them.