CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE § 2025.450. Failure to comply with deposition notice; Motion for order compelling compliance; Requirements; Discovery of electronically stored information; Monetary and other sanctions, Cal Code Civ Proc § 2025.450
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(a) If, after service of a deposition notice, a party to the action or an officer, director, managing agent, or employee of a party, or a person designated by an organization that is a party under Section 2025.230, without having served a valid objection under Section 2025.410, fails to appear for examination, or to proceed with it, or to produce for inspection any document, electronically stored information, or tangible thing described in the deposition notice, the party giving the notice may move for an order compelling the deponent’s attendance and testimony, and the production for inspection of any document, electronically stored information, or tangible thing described in the deposition notice.