Form 9. Form of Subpoena
Arizona Revised Statutes AnnotatedRules of Civil Procedure for the Superior Courts of Arizona
16 A.R.S. Rules of Civil Procedure, Form 9
Form 9. Form of Subpoena
Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Phone:
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF __________
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vs. | ) | SUBPOENA IN A CIVIL CASE |
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Defendant | ) | |||
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TO: ________________________________________
(Name of Recipient)
[Select one or more of the following, as appropriate:]
[ ] For Attendance of Witnesses at Hearing or Trial
YOU ARE COMMANDED to appear in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the County of __________, at the place, date and time specified below to testify at [ ] a hearing [ ] trial in the above cause:
Judicial Officer:
Courtroom:
Address:
Date:
Time:
[ ] For Taking of Depositions
YOU ARE COMMANDED to appear at the place, date and time specified below to testify at the taking of a deposition in the above cause:
Place of Deposition:
Address:
Date:
Time:
Method of Recording:
[ ] For Production of Documentary Evidence or Inspection of Premises
YOU ARE COMMANDED, to produce and permit inspection, copying, testing, or sampling of the following designated documents, electronically stored information or tangible things, or to permit the inspection of premises:
[designation of documents, electronically stored information or tangible things, or the location of the premises to be inspected]
at the place, date, and time specified below:
Place of Production or Inspection:
Address:
Date:
Time:
[The following text must be included in every subpoena:]
Your Duties in Responding To This Subpoena
Attendance at a Trial. If this subpoena commands you to appear at a trial, you must appear at the place, date and time designated in the subpoena unless you file a timely motion with the court and the court quashes or modifies the subpoena. See Rule 45(b)(5) and Rule 45(e)(2) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. See also “Your Right To Object To This Subpoena” section below. Unless a court orders otherwise, you are required to travel to any part of the state to attend and give testimony at a trial. See Rule 45(b)(3)(A) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
Attendance at a Hearing or Deposition. If this subpoena commands you to appear at a hearing or deposition, you must appear at the place, date and time designated in this subpoena unless either: (1) you file a timely motion with the court and the court quashes or modifies the subpoena; or (2) you are not a party or a party's officer and this subpoena commands you to travel to a place other than: (a) the county where you reside or you transact business in person; or (b) the county where you were served with the subpoena or within forty (40) miles from the place of service; or (c) such other convenient place fixed by a court order. See Rule 45(b)(3)(B) and Rule 45(e)(2)(A)(ii) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. See also “Your Right To Object To This Subpoena” section below.
Production of Documentary Evidence. If this subpoena commands you to produce and permit inspection, copying, testing, or sampling of designated documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things, you must make the items available at the place, date, and time designated in this subpoena, and in the case of electronically stored information, in the form or forms requested, unless you provide a good faith written objection to the party or attorney who served the subpoena. You may object to the production of electronically stored information from sources that you identify as not reasonably accessible because of undue burden or expense, including sources that are unduly burdensome or expensive to access because of the past good-faith operation of an electronic information system or good-faith and consistent application of a document retention policy. See Rule 45(c)(2)(D) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. Other grounds for objection are described in the “Your Right To Object To This Subpoena” section below. If this subpoena does not specify a form for producing electronically stored information, you may produce it in native form or in another reasonably usable form that will enable the receiving party to have the same ability to access, search, and display the information as the responding person, but you need not produce the same electronically stored information in more than one form. See Rule 45(c)(2)(B) and (C) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
If the subpoena commands you to produce documents, you have the duty to produce the designated documents as they are kept by you in the usual course of business, or you may organize the documents and label them to correspond with the categories set forth in the subpoena. See Rule 45(c)(4) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
Inspection of Premises. If the subpoena commands you to make certain premises available for inspection, you must make the designated premises available for inspection on the date and time designated in this subpoena unless you provide a good faith written objection to the party or attorney who served the subpoena. See Rule 45(c)(6) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. See also “Your Right to Object to This Subpoena” section below.
Combined Subpoena. You should note that a command to produce certain designated materials, or to permit the inspection of premises, may be combined with a command to appear at a trial, hearing, or deposition. See Rule 45(b)(2) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. You do not, however, need to appear in person at the place of production or inspection unless the subpoena also states that you must appear for and give testimony at a hearing, trial or deposition. See Rule 45(c)(3) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
Your Right To Object To This Subpoena
Generally. If you have concerns or questions about this subpoena, you should first contact the party or attorney who served the subpoena. The party or attorney serving the subpoena has a duty to take reasonable steps to avoid imposing an undue burden or expense on you. The superior court enforces this duty and may impose sanctions upon the party or attorney serving the subpoena if this duty is breached. See Rule 45(e)(1) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. Unless otherwise ordered by the court for good cause, the party seeking discovery from you must pay your reasonable expenses incurred in responding to a subpoena seeking the production of documents, electronically stored information, tangible things, or an inspection of premises. If you seek payment of expenses other than routine clerical and per-page copying costs as allowed by A.R.S. § 12-351, you must object on the grounds of undue burden to producing the materials without the subpoenaing party's payment, and send an advance estimate of those expenses to the subpoenaing party, before the time specified for compliance or within 14 days after the subpoena is served, whichever is earlier. You need not comply with those parts of the subpoena that are the subject of the objection, unless the court orders you to do so. The court may enter an order conditioning your response to the subpoena on payment of your additional expenses, including ordering payment of those expenses in advance. See Rule 45(e)(1)(B).
Procedure for Objecting to a Subpoena for Attendance at a Hearing, Trial or Deposition. If you wish to object to a subpoena commanding your appearance at a hearing, trial or deposition, you must file a motion to quash or modify the subpoena with the court to obtain a court order excusing you from complying with this subpoena. See Rules 45(b)(5) and 45(e)(2) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. The motion must be filed in the superior court of the county in which the case is pending or in the superior court of the county from which the subpoena was issued. See Rule 45(e)(2)(A) and (B) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. The motion must be filed before the time specified for compliance or within 14 days after the subpoena is served, whichever is earlier. See Rule 45(e)(2)(D) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. You must send a copy of any motion to quash or modify the subpoena to the party or attorney who served the subpoena. See Rule 45(e)(2)(E) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. Even if you file such a motion, you must still attend and testify at the date, time, and place specified in the subpoena, unless excused from doing so--by the party or attorney serving the subpoena or by a court order--before the date and time specified for your appearance. See Rule 45(b)(5) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
The court must quash or modify a subpoena:
(2) unless the subpoena commands your attendance at a trial, if you are not a party or a party's officer and if the subpoena commands you to travel to a place other than: (a) the county where you reside or transact business in person; (b) the county where you were served with a subpoena, or within forty (40) miles from the place of service; or (c) such other convenient place fixed by a court order; or
See Rule 45(e)(2)(A) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
The court may quash or modify a subpoena:
See Rule 45(e)(2)(B) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
In these last four circumstances, a court may, instead of quashing or modifying a subpoena, order your appearance or order the production of material under specified conditions if: (1) the serving party or attorney shows a substantial need for the testimony or material that cannot be otherwise met without undue hardship; and (2) if your travel expenses or the expenses resulting from the production are at issue, the court ensures that you will be reasonably compensated. See Rule 45(e)(2)(C) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
Procedure for Objecting to Subpoena for Production of Documentary Evidence. If you wish to object to a subpoena commanding you to produce documents, electronically stored information or tangible items, or to permit the inspection of premises, you may send a good faith written objection to the party or attorney serving the subpoena that objects to: (1) producing, inspecting, copying, testing, or sampling any or all of the materials designated in the subpoena; (2) inspecting the premises; or (3) producing electronically stored information in the form or forms requested or from sources that are not reasonably accessible because of undue burden or expense, the good-faith routine operation of an electronic information system, or the good-faith and consistent application of a document retention policy. You also may object on the ground that the subpoena seeks the production of materials that that have already been produced in the action or that are available from parties to the action. See Rule 45(e)(1)(A). If you seek payment of expenses other than routine clerical and per-page copying costs as allowed by A.R.S. § 12-351, you must object on the grounds of undue burden to producing the materials without the subpoenaing party's payment, and provide an advance estimate of those additional expenses. You must send your written objection to the party or attorney who served the subpoena before the time specified for compliance or within 14 days after the subpoena is served, whichever is earlier. See Rule 45(c)(6)(A)(i) and (ii) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
If you object because you claim the information requested is privileged, protected, or subject to protection as trial preparation material, you must express the objection clearly, and identify in writing the information, document, or electronically stored information withheld and describe the nature of that information, document, or electronically stored information in a manner that--without revealing information that is itself privileged or protected--will enable the demanding party to assess the claim. See Rules 26(b)(6)(A) and 45(c)(5)(A) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. You may object to providing the information required by Rule 26(b)(6)(A) if providing the information would impose an undue burden or expense.
If you object to the subpoena in writing, you do not need to comply with the subpoena until a court orders you to do so. It will be up to the party or attorney serving the subpoena to first personally consult with you and engage in good faith efforts to resolve your objection and, if the objection cannot be resolved, to seek an order from the court to compel you to provide the documents or inspection requested, after providing notice to you. See Rule 45(c)(6)(B) and (C) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
If you are not a party to the litigation, or a party's officer, the court will issue an order to protect you from any significant expense resulting from the inspection and copying commanded. See Rule 45(c)(6)(B) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
Instead of sending a written objection to the party or attorney who served the subpoena, you also have the option of raising your objections in a motion to quash or modify the subpoena, or through a motion for protective order. See Rule 45(c)(6)(B) and (e)(2) of the Arizona Rules for Civil Procedure. The procedure and grounds for doing so are described in the section above entitled “Procedure for Objecting to a Subpoena for Attendance at a Hearing, Trial or Deposition.”
If the subpoena also commands your attendance at a hearing, trial or deposition, sending a written objection to the party or attorney who served the subpoena does not suspend or modify your obligation to attend and give testimony at the date, time and place specified in the subpoena. See Rule 45(c)(6)(A)(iii) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. If you wish to object to the portion of this subpoena requiring your attendance at a hearing, trial or deposition, you must file a motion to quash or modify the subpoena as described in the section above entitled “Procedure for Objecting to a Subpoena for Attendance at a Hearing, Trial or Deposition.” See Rule 45(b)(5) and 45(c)(6)(A)(iii) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. Even if you file such a motion, you must still attend and testify at the date, time, and place specified in the subpoena, unless excused from doing so--by the party or attorney serving the subpoena or by a court order--before the date and time specified for your appearance. See Rule 45(b)(5) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure.
ADA Notification
Requests for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the court by parties at least 3 working days in advance of a scheduled court proceeding.
[Optional: this form may include the provisions of Rule 64.1(c)(2) of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure].
SIGNED AND SEALED this date
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__________ CLERK
By:
Deputy Clerk
Certificate of service:
Credits
Added Sept. 2, 2016, effective Jan. 1, 2017. Amended Aug. 31, 2017, effective July 1, 2018.
16 A. R. S. Rules Civ. Proc., Form 9, AZ ST RCP Form 9
State Court Rules are current with amendments received through April 1, 2024. The Code of Judicial Administration is current with amendments received through April 1, 2024.
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