attached to the notice. The court may allow a shorter or longer time. Such
notice may be served without leave of court upon the expiration of forty-
five (45) days after service of the summons and complaint or other mode
of service under Rule 4–Rule 4.4 upon any defendant, except that leave is
not required within the forty-five- (45-) day period if a defendant has
previously sought discovery.
(B) Objection to Issuance of Subpoena for Production or Inspection.
Any person or party may serve an objection to the issuance of a subpoena
for production, inspection, copying, testing, or sampling within ten (10)
days of the service of said notice and in such event the subpoena shall not
issue. The party serving the notice may move for an order under Rule
37(a) with respect to such objection. If no objection is timely served, the
clerk shall cause the subpoena to be issued upon the expiration of fifteen
(15) days from the service of the notice or upon the expiration of such
other time as may have been allowed by the court.
(C) Content of Subpoena for Production or Inspection. The
subpoena shall be directed to a person at a stated address, and, if the
name of the person is not known, the subpoena shall give a general
description sufficient to identify the person or the particular class or group
to which the pers
on belongs.
The subpoena shall set forth the items to be produced, inspected, copied, tested, or sampled, either by individual item
or by category, and describe each item and category with reasonable
particularity. The subpoena shall specify a reasonable time to comply of
no less than fif
teen (
15) days af
ter ser
vic
e unless t
he court
orders
otherwise and the manner of making the inspection, production, copying,
testing, sampling, and performing the related acts. Such activities with
reference to documents, including electronically stored information, or
tangible things shall take place where the documents or tangible things
are regularly kept or at some other reasonable place designated by the
recipient. The subpoena may give the recipient an option to deliver or mail
legible copies of documents or things to the party serving the subpoena,
but the recipient may condition the preparation of copies on the payment
in advance of the reasonable cost of making such copies. Any other party
shall have the right to be present at the time of compliance with the
subpoena. The subpoena shall advise the recipient of the right to object at
any time prior to the date set forth in the subpoena for compliance
therewith.
(D) Avail
ability of Copies of Documents. If the party serving the subpoena obtains copies of documents, including electronically stored
information, or things, that party shall make available a duplicate of such
copies at the request of any other party upon the payment of the
reasonable cost of making such copies.