Rakes v. Fulcher

How courts have described this case

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• interpreting Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which the Court found analogous to Virginia’s Rule 4:9
• relying on federal cases interpreting a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure that was -8- “substantially the same” as its Virginia counterpart
• moving party must show good cause to obtain documents in pre-trial discovery request
• moving party must show good cause to obtain documents in pre-trial discovery request
• reviewing federal decisions interpreting another rule “substantially the same” as the Virginia counterpart
• “We interpret good cause as used in our Rule 4:9 to mean that before any party is entitled to the production of documents or other tangible things, such as are involved in this case, there must be a showing of some special circumstances in addition to relevancy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).