Legal Question in Business Law in California

Hello,

My question regards self-authenticating government documents: Is correspondence produced by a vendor to their beneficiaries considered self-authenticating? Does a state seal, or Department's name, or any branding from the vendor, make it self-authenticating? Does the lack of a state seal, or Department's name, or branding, make a difference? I'm doing research on a project and need to find out what makes the case for self-authenticating documents (in government). If the vendor's system produces the original and is the source of the self-authenticating documents, then will that suffice in alleviating printing the documents and sending to another vendor, who plans to scan the paper and store the digital copy? I'm trying to remove the wasteful interim step. Not sure if this is Health Care Law or Business law.

Thank you,

Candace


Asked on 1/04/18, 7:41 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Keith E. Cooper Keith E. Cooper, Esq.

Self-authentication of documents applies only in the context of litigation, and refers to whether an individual must testify as to their authenticity before they can be used as evidence. It has no significance outside of litigation. There is a good description of "Self-authenticating documents" on Wikipedia, which should answer your questions about types of documents.

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Answered on 1/11/18, 11:08 am


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