International & out-of-state discovery (North Carolina)
Reaching a witness or documents outside North Carolina runs different rails depending on where the evidence is — and NC's first rail is the genuine article: Chapter 1F IS the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, loaded verbatim. Each route is shown with the authority that governs it; the choice and the comity analysis are legal judgments.
Incoming: an out-of-state case reaching an NC witness (the UIDDA — loaded)
A foreign (sister-state) subpoena is submitted to the clerk where the discovery is sought; the clerk issues the NC subpoena for service under the NC rules — Chapter 1F is North Carolina's enactment of the uniform act, in the corpus verbatim.
G.S. 1F-1 through 1F-7 (loaded)
Outgoing: an NC case reaching an out-of-state witness
Take the NC-issued instrument to the witness's state and domesticate it under THAT state's UIDDA (or its commission practice) — the receiving state's procedure governs the subpoena's issuance there.
G.S. 1A-1, Rule 28 (persons before whom depositions may be taken); the receiving state's UIDDA
28 U.S.C. § 1782
Evidence in the U.S. for use in a foreign or international tribunal — a federal-court application, not a state route.
28 U.S.C. § 1782 (federal)
The Hague Evidence Convention
Evidence located abroad from a Convention country — Letters of Request through the Central Authority; the comity balance on when it is required vs. optional is case law (anchor — verify before citing).
Hague Evidence Convention; the comity line — anchors