Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys: 6.2.5 Requests for Production of Documents
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34(a) permits a request from an opposing party to “produce and permit the requesting party or its representative to inspect, copy, test, or sample” documents, including electronically stored information, as well as “tangible things” that are in the responding party’s “possession, custody or control.” Generally, the responding party may either produce requested documents or permit them to be inspected and copied.