WYOMING COURT RULES

98 (E) Producing the Documents or Electronically Stored Information. — Unless otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, these procedures apply to producing documents or electronically stored information: (i) A party must produce documents as they are kept in the usual course of business or must organize and label them to correspond to the categories in the request; (ii) If a request does not specify a form for producing electronically stored information, a party must produce it in a form or forms in which it is ordinarily maintained or in a reasonably usable form or forms; and (iii) A party need not produce the same electronically stored informa- tion in more than one form. (c) Nonparties. — As provided in Rule 45, a nonparty may be compelled to produce documents and tangible things or to permit an inspection. History: Added February 2, 2017, effective March 1, 2017. Source. — This rule is similar to Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Attorney misconduct. — Attorney violated Wyo. R. Civ. P. 26, 33, and 34 because he failed to obtain from the plaintiff or his care providers evidence of ongoing medical care and resulting expenses; he also failed to comply with a court order directing him to file the order. Bd. of Pro. Resp. v. Struemke, 2024 WY 112, 558 P.3d 540, 2024 Wyo. LEXIS 114 (Wyo. 2024). Sanctions. — Business owners contended that a district court abused its discretion by requiring the owners to pay attorney fees and expenses to an investor that the investor alleg- edly incurred in obtaining discovery; however, when the trial court ordered the business own- ers to comply with a discovery request in July, but the business owners had still not complied by November, the district court acted within its discretion in imposing sanctions. Lieberman v. Mossbrook, 2009 WY 65, 208 P.3d 1296, 2009 Wyo. LEXIS 64 (Wyo. 2009). Law reviews. — For article, “Pleading Un- der the Federal Rules,” see 12 Wyo. L.J. 177 (1958). For article, “The Discovery Procedure in the General Practice,” see 12 Wyo. L.J. 231 (1958). For article, “A Primer on Computer Simula- tion of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs,” see XXII Land & Water L. Rev. 119 (1987). See article, “The 1994 Amendments to the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure,” XXX Land & Water L. Rev. 151 (1994).