§ 2029.100.Short title

Before getting into how any of this works, the article gives itself a name. It may be cited as the Interstate and International Depositions and Discovery Act, a title that signals what the article does: it's California's version of a model law designed to let a party in a case pending somewhere else use California's courts and subpoena power to gather discovery here.

The name also flags what makes California's version distinctive. It's built on the national Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, but it goes further, adding procedural details the uniform version leaves unaddressed and reaching discovery for foreign-country proceedings, not just cases pending in other U.S. states. The rest of the article fills in exactly how that reach works.