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Bar association backs interstate discovery law to simplify out-of-state depositions

Joint Committee on the Judiciary · November 4, 2025
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Summary

The Boston Bar Association urged the committee to adopt the Massachusetts Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act (H1857), a uniform-law model passed in many other states that streamlines depositions and discovery of out-of-state witnesses and documents. Testimony said the change reduces delay and cost in civil litigation that crosses state

Peter Jamieson, a family-law partner and member of the Boston Bar Association's Family Law Steering Committee, told the committee he drafted H1857 based on the Uniform Law Commission model (the Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act) and that…

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