Cross-border discovery
Washington adopted the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act as RCW chapter 5.51 — loaded verbatim. The interstate, federal, international, and tribal lanes each run on their own law; the routes are shown, the judgment routed.
THE UIDDA — RCW 5.51 (loaded)
Out-of-state litigants reach Washington witnesses by submitting the FOREIGN SUBPOENA to the clerk of the county where discovery is sought — the clerk issues the Washington subpoena; no miscellaneous action, no pro hac vice for the request itself. And a Washington case reaches other UIDDA states the mirror way.
RCW 5.51.010, .020
Federal § 1782 (the inbound federal lane)
Foreign proceedings reaching evidence IN the United States run through the federal district courts — the four-element gate plus the Intel discretion factors. The federal doctrine lives in the platform's federal layer; the lane is named here so nobody reinvents it under state law.
28 U.S.C. § 1782 (federal corpus)
The Hague channel (outbound)
Evidence abroad routes through letters of request and the Convention's machinery, with member-state reservations controlling scope — months-scale timing, admissibility planned at drafting. Categorical information only; country-specific law is never stated from memory.
The Evidence Convention (pointer layer)
Tribal sovereignty (the honest boundary)
Tribal courts are sovereign systems, not counties. Service, subpoenas, and enforcement touching tribal land or tribal parties need tribe-specific law this platform does not load — stated plainly, routed always. Timing questions there need an explicit zone, never a silent default.
doctrine note
Read the UIDDA verbatim: RCW 5.51.020 →
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