§ 25-1224.Subpoena; to whom directed; production of documents, information, or tangible things; Supreme Court; powers.

A subpoena often needs to do more than bring a witness to testify; it needs to bring evidence along too. Section 25-1224 authorizes that combination. A subpoena commanding a person to appear and testify at a trial or deposition may also command the person to produce, at that same time and place, designated documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things within the person’s possession, custody, or control.

Rather than setting its own independent standard for how much can be demanded, the section ties the scope of any such production command to the rules of discovery in civil cases. That linkage keeps subpoena-based document production consistent with the broader discovery framework that already governs interrogatories, requests for production, and similar tools between the parties, rather than creating a separate, potentially inconsistent standard just for subpoenas.

The section also gives the Supreme Court authority to promulgate a rule specifying the procedures for serving a deposition subpoena that includes a document-production command, as long as that rule does not conflict with governing law. That rulemaking authority lets procedural detail, such as how objections or timing work for subpoenaed document production, develop through court rule rather than statute.