What is the current state of the law in relation to discovery?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Platt v. Superior Court (Contreras), 214 Cal.App.3d 779, 263 Cal.Rptr. 32 (Cal. App. 1989):
"The liberal scope of discovery ... displaces any concept of proprietary or quasi-proprietary interest which, under the prior practice, a party to a suit may have claimed in the fruits of his investigation." (Hickman v. Taylor (1945) 4 F.R.D. 479, 482.)
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