§ 2036.050.Use of deposition to perpetuate testimony in later proceedings

This final section closes Chapter 20 the way Section 2035.060 closes Chapter 19: by confirming that a deposition taken under this chapter's procedure is not just a formality but something that can be put to use later. If a case comes back to the trial court, on remand after a reversal, for further proceedings ordered by the appellate court, or in any other later stage, a deposition taken under this chapter to perpetuate testimony while the appeal was pending can be offered in that proceeding.

The section points to the existing framework rather than inventing a new one: use of the deposition is governed by Section 2025.620, the same statute that controls how any deposition may be used at trial or in a hearing. Nothing about having been taken under this post-judgment, pending-appeal procedure changes the standard for admitting it. The value of Chapter 20 lies almost entirely in this section, since a right to take a deposition would mean little if the deposition could not later be put to use once the case resumes.