South Carolina — Palmetto
Discovery in South Carolina — the rules are here, whole.
Rules 26 through 37, SCRCP — scope, depositions, interrogatories, production, physical examination, admissions, and sanctions — are ALL loaded per rule from the court's own pages. This engine links them as units; it never paraphrases a loaded rule into a summary.
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The loaded family — read each rule as a unit
- Rule 26, SCRCP — general provisions governing discovery
- Rule 30, SCRCP — depositions upon oral examination
- Rule 33, SCRCP — interrogatories to parties
- Rule 34, SCRCP — production of documents and things
- Rule 36, SCRCP — requests for admission
- Rule 37, SCRCP — failure to make discovery; sanctions
- Rule 45, SCRCP — subpoenas (the ADR cross-reference target)
What the ADR layer says about itself
The arbitration layer is NON-BINDING by its own scope line
"This rule applies only to non-binding arbitrations"
Rule 12(a), SCADR
Binding arbitration under the Uniform Arbitration Act is expressly outside the court-annexed rules.
Arbitration subpoenas ride the civil rule
"Rule 45, SCRCP, shall apply to subpoenas for attendance of witnesses and production of documentary evidence at an arbitration hearing"
Rule 12(b)(2), SCADR
Rule 45, SCRCP is itself a loaded unit — the cross-reference resolves inside this corpus.
The evidence rules GUIDE arbitration without governing it
"The South Carolina Rules of Evidence do not apply, except as to privilege, in an arbitration hearing but shall be considered as a guide"
Rule 12(b)(4), SCADR
Privilege survives every forum — and the SCRE are a loaded family here (61 rules).
THE PRESERVATION SHAPE — the old safe harbor, preserved
"Absent exceptional circumstances, a court may not impose sanctions under these rules on a party for failing to provide electronically stored information lost as a result of the routine, good-faith operation of an electronic information system."
That is the 2006-era federal safe harbor — the text the federal system replaced in 2015 with intent-based Rule 37(e). South Carolina kept it, and the loaded page's own note states the lineage: "This Rule 37 is the language of the Federal Rule with minor changes." No sibling state on this platform has this shape: Washington's civil rules carry no ESI-loss provision, Nevada adopted the modern 37(e), and here the old harbor still governs.
Reaching across state lines? South Carolina adopted the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act — the whole chapter is loaded. The interstate lane.