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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6554
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      April 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, WEINSTEIN, TITONE, HENNESSEY -- (at
          request of the Office  of  Court  Administration)  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Judiciary
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil  practice  law  and rules, in relation to
          prevention of abuse during discovery
 

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 3103 of the civil practice law
     2  and rules, as amended by chapter 98 of the laws of 1993, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a)  Prevention  of abuse. The court may at any time on its own initi-
     5  ative, or on motion of any party or of any person  from  whom  or  about
     6  whom  discovery  is  sought,  make a protective order denying, limiting,
     7  conditioning or regulating the use of any disclosure device. Such  order
     8  shall be designed to prevent unreasonable annoyance, expense, embarrass-
     9  ment, disadvantage, or other prejudice to any person or the courts.
    10    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all

    11  actions pending on such effective date or commenced  on  or  after  such
    12  effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09758-01-3