Wyoming follows the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act. The foreign subpoena is submitted to the clerk of the county where discovery will take place, who promptly issues a local one. The rule requires no Wyoming attorney. Served 123 LLC files and serves it on one quote.
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Served 123 LLC handles subpoena domestications in all 23 Wyoming counties. The county finder names the district court clerk for the discovery county, and the directory lists each address. Search it by town, city or ZIP code to find the right clerk’s office for that discovery county. Those clerks sit in nine judicial districts, from Cheyenne and Sundance in the east to Cody and Jackson in the west.
Documents Subpoena
A person asked only for documents need not appear in person unless also commanded to, Rule 45(c)(2)(A), and certified business records come under W.R.E. 902(11). Your written quote confirms the path and the dates, before you pay.
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One written quote covers document preparation, any issuer’s or clerk’s fee and service if ordered.
The table gives each point of the clerk route with its statute or rule, and the steps below show the order of the work, from the papers you send to the signed proof.
| Point | Wyoming | Statute or Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Law | A court rule, Rule 28(c), added in 2017 and amended effective September 1, 2021 | W.R.C.P. 28(c) |
| Why a Rule | The Supreme Court adopts procedure rules for all Wyoming courts | § 5-2-114 |
| Venue | The clerk of court for the discovery county | Rule 28(c)(2)(A) |
| Who Issues | The clerk, promptly, in accordance with that court’s procedure | Rule 28(c)(2)(B) |
| Local Attorney | Not required by the rule; the request is not an appearance | Rule 28(c)(2)(A) |
| What Goes In | The foreign subpoena; the Wyoming one carries its terms and every counsel’s contacts | Rule 28(c)(2)(C) |
| Forms | None provided with the rules; the foreign subpoena is the request | Rule 84 |
| Service | A sheriff, a deputy or any adult non-party, anywhere in Wyoming | Rule 45(b)(1) |
| Witness Fee | One day’s fees and mileage, tendered when attendance is commanded | Rule 45(b)(1) |
| Proof | A certified statement filed with the issuing clerk, when proof is needed | Rule 45(b)(2) |
| Objections | In writing within 14 days after service, or sooner if compliance comes first | Rule 45(c)(2)(B) |
| Motions | The court for the county where discovery is conducted | Rule 28(c)(5) |
Your subpoena comes to us with all of its attachments, the witness, your dates and the counsel list, and your written quote confirms the steps before you pay.
We prepare the Wyoming subpoena with the foreign terms, the Rule 45 contents and every counsel’s name, address and phone.
The clerk for the county where discovery will take place issues the Wyoming subpoena under that court’s procedure.
Your side serves each party with notice of a documents subpoena before service, or written notice of a deposition.
Our server delivers a copy to the witness, with one day’s fees and mileage advanced when attendance is commanded.
The server’s certified statement of the date, manner and persons served comes back to you signed.
Under W.R.C.P. 45(c)(2)(B), a person commanded to produce or to allow an inspection may serve a written objection “within 14 days after service of the subpoena or before the time specified for compliance if such time is less than 14 days after service”. The same text governs a clerk-issued subpoena. Under Rule 6(a), the day of service is left out, every day counts, and a last day on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday (Wyo. Stat. § 8-4-101) runs to the next day that is none of those.
If the subpoena sets compliance sooner than 14 days after service, the objection is due before that time, W.R.C.P. 45(c)(2)(B).
A planning aid, not legal advice. It does not add the three days given after service by mail, or see a holiday the governor, the chief justice or local officials name later, or a court order setting another time. If a date is close, ask counsel.
Wyoming brought interstate depositions and discovery into its civil rules in 2017 as Rule 28(c). The quotations below are Rule 28(c)(2): where the request goes, who issues and what the Wyoming subpoena must carry.
To request issuance of a subpoena under this section, a party must submit a foreign subpoena to a clerk of court in the county in which discovery is sought to be conducted in Wyoming. A request for issuance of a subpoena under this act does not constitute an appearance in the courts of this state.
Served 123 LLC prepares the Wyoming subpoena and handles the filing.
Get a Free Quote Online →The clerk, in accordance with that court’s procedure, shall promptly issue a subpoena for service upon the person to which the foreign subpoena is directed.
(i) incorporate the terms used in the foreign subpoena; and (ii) contain or be accompanied by the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all counsel of record in the proceeding to which the subpoena relates and of any party not represented by counsel.
Official texts: W.R.C.P. 6, 28, 30, 45, 83 and 84; Wyo. Stat. § 8-4-101, § 1-12-101, § 1-12-115, § 1-14-102, § 5-2-114, § 9-3-103 and §§ 35-2-609 and 35-2-618; U.R.D.C. 104; W.R.E. 902(11); 45 C.F.R. § 164.512. General information, not legal advice. The official text controls.
Served 123 LLC prepares the papers under the rule, and your written quote confirms the steps, before you pay.
Get a Free Quote Online →These cards set out who may serve, how, a company witness, the notice owed to the other side, what the witness is owed, the proof, where the witness attends and where a motion goes. For a summons or other court papers, see process service in Wyoming.
Rule 45(b)(1) reads: “A subpoena may be served by the sheriff, by a deputy sheriff, or by any other person who is not a party and is not a minor, at any place within the State of Wyoming.” Rule 28(c)(3) sends a clerk-issued subpoena through Rule 45 for service.
W.R.C.P. 45(b)(1); 28(c)(3)Rule 45(b)(1) continues: “Service of a subpoena upon a person named therein shall be made by delivering a copy thereof to such person and, if the person’s attendance is commanded, by tendering to that person the fees for one day’s attendance and the mileage allowed by law.”
W.R.C.P. 45(b)(1)Wyo. Stat. § 1-14-102(a) reads: “Witnesses are entitled to receive the following minimum fees: (i) For attending before any court or grand jury, or before any judge, referee or commissioner, ten dollars ($10.00) per day, and five dollars ($5.00) for half a day; and”.
Wyo. Stat. § 1-14-102(a)(i)When proof is needed, Rule 45(b)(2) calls for “filing with the clerk of the court by which the subpoena is issued, a statement of the date and manner of service and of the names of the persons served.” The server signs it: “The statement must be certified by the person who made the service.”
W.R.C.P. 45(b)(2)Section 1-14-102(a)(iii) adds “Mileage at the rate set in W.S. 9-3-103 for each mile actually and necessarily traveled in going to and returning from place of attendance.” Under § 9-3-103, private vehicle travel is paid “based on a mileage allowance not to exceed the maximum nontaxable rates allowed by the internal revenue service at the time of travel.” When attendance is commanded, that mileage goes with the day’s fee at service, Rule 45(b)(1).
Wyo. Stat. §§ 1-14-102(a)(iii), 9-3-103; W.R.C.P. 45(b)(1)Under Rule 45(b)(4), a person subpoenaed to a deposition “may be required to attend only in the county wherein that person resides or is employed or regularly transacts business in person, or at such other convenient place as is fixed by an order of court.” For a nonresident: “A nonresident of the state may be required to attend only in the county wherein that nonresident is served with a subpoena or at such other convenient place as is fixed by an order of court.”
W.R.C.P. 45(b)(4)Rule 30(b)(6) reads: “In its notice or subpoena, a party may name as the deponent a public or private corporation, a partnership, an association, a governmental agency, or other entity and must describe with reasonable particularity the matters for examination.” For a nonparty: “A subpoena must advise a nonparty organization of its duty to make this designation.”
W.R.C.P. 30(b)(6)Rule 30(b)(1) reads: “A party who wants to depose a person by oral questions must give reasonable written notice to every other party.” Under Rule 30(b)(2), “If a subpoena duces tecum is to be served on the deponent, the materials designated for production, as set out in the subpoena, must be listed in the notice or in an attachment.”
W.R.C.P. 30(b)(1), (2)Rule 45(a)(4) reads: “If the subpoena commands the production of documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things or the inspection of premises before trial, then before it is served, a notice must be served on each party.”
W.R.C.P. 45(a)(4)Rule 45(c)(1) puts a duty on the side that issues the subpoena: “A party or an attorney responsible for the issuance and service of a subpoena shall take reasonable steps to avoid imposing undue burden or expense on a person subject to that subpoena.”
W.R.C.P. 45(c)(1)Rule 45(c)(3)(A)(ii) has the court quash or modify a subpoena that “requires a person who is not a party or an officer of a party to travel outside that person’s county of residence or employment or a county where that person regularly transacts business in person”, subject to the exception the rule states.
W.R.C.P. 45(c)(3)(A)(ii)Rule 28(c)(5) reads: “An application to the court for a protective order or to enforce, quash, or modify a subpoena issued by a clerk of court under paragraph (c)(2) of this rule must comply with the rules or statutes of this state and be submitted to the court for the county in which discovery is to be conducted.”
W.R.C.P. 28(c)(5)Served 123 LLC handles the service, any tender the witness is owed and the signed proof of service.
Get a Free Quote Online →These cards cover a request for documents alone, the objection window and what an objection changes, the grounds to quash, how records are produced, certified business records, the hospital and physician rules and the federal privacy rule.
Under Rule 45(c)(2)(A), a person commanded to produce documents or permit inspection of premises “need not appear in person at the place of production or inspection unless also commanded to appear for deposition, hearing or trial.”
W.R.C.P. 45(c)(2)(A)Title 35 still carries the heading “ARTICLE 6 - HOSPITAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION”, but one of its sections now reads only “35-2-609. Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 78, § 3.” Read the current article before relying on an older hospital-records practice.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-609Rule 45(c)(2)(B) lets the person “within 14 days after service of the subpoena or before the time specified for compliance if such time is less than 14 days after service, serve upon the party or attorney designated in the subpoena written objection” to producing the materials or allowing the inspection.
W.R.C.P. 45(c)(2)(B)Rule 45 names no fixed number of days to comply. Under Rule 45(c)(3)(A), the issuing court “shall quash or modify the subpoena if it (i) fails to allow reasonable time for compliance;”, and the 14-day objection window in Rule 45(c)(2)(B) runs from service.
W.R.C.P. 45(c)(3)(A)(i); 45(c)(2)(B)Rule 45(c)(2)(B) goes on: “If objection is made, the party serving the subpoena shall not be entitled to inspect, copy, test, or sample the materials or inspect the premises except pursuant to an order of the court by which the subpoena was issued.” The serving side may then move to compel, on notice to the person commanded to produce.
W.R.C.P. 45(c)(2)(B)Section 1-12-101(a) opens: “The following persons shall not testify in certain respects:” First on the list: “(i) An attorney or a physician concerning a communication made to him by his client or patient in that relation, or his advice to his client or patient. The attorney or physician may testify by express consent of the client or patient”.
Wyo. Stat. § 1-12-101(a)(i)Under Rule 45(c)(3)(A): “On timely motion, the court by which a subpoena was issued shall quash or modify the subpoena if it (i) fails to allow reasonable time for compliance;” The list also reaches a subpoena that “(iii) requires disclosure of privileged or other protected matter and no exception or waiver applies; or (iv) subjects a person to undue burden.”
W.R.C.P. 45(c)(3)(A)Section 35-2-618 reads: “35-2-618. Medical staff committees; record confidentiality. (a) All reports, findings, proceedings and data of medical staff committees shall be confidential and privileged.” A subpoena reaching those files meets Rule 45(c)(3)(A)(iii), under which the court quashes one that requires privileged matter where no exception or waiver applies.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-618(a); W.R.C.P. 45(c)(3)(A)(iii)Rule 45(d)(1)(A) reads: “A person responding to a subpoena to produce documents shall produce them as they are kept in the usual course of business”, or organized to match the request. For electronic data with no form named, Rule 45(d)(1)(B) says “a person responding to a subpoena must produce the information in a form or forms in which the person ordinarily maintains it or in a form or forms that are reasonably usable.”
W.R.C.P. 45(d)(1)(A), (B)W.R.E. 902(11) covers “The original or a copy of a domestic record that meets the requirements of Rule 803(6), as shown by a certification of the custodian or another qualified person that complies with a state or federal statute, or a rule prescribed by the Wyoming Supreme Court, that if falsely made would subject the maker to a criminal penalty.” Before the trial or hearing, the proponent gives an adverse party reasonable written notice of the intent to offer the record.
W.R.E. 902(11)45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(ii) covers disclosure “In response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process, that is not accompanied by an order of a court or administrative tribunal”. One path is notice: “The covered entity receives satisfactory assurance, as described in paragraph (e)(1)(iii) of this section, from the party seeking the information that reasonable efforts have been made by such party to ensure that the individual who is the subject of the protected health information that has been requested has been given notice of the request”. So a subpoena that comes with no court order can still reach the records, once the side seeking them gives the covered entity that assurance.
45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(ii)(A)The other assurance is that “reasonable efforts have been made by such party to secure a qualified protective order that meets the requirements of paragraph (e)(1)(v) of this section.” Under paragraph (e)(1)(vi), “a covered entity may disclose protected health information in response to lawful process described in paragraph (e)(1)(ii) of this section without receiving satisfactory assurance under paragraph (e)(1)(ii)(A) or (B) of this section, if the covered entity makes reasonable efforts to provide notice to the individual sufficient to meet the requirements of paragraph (e)(1)(iii) of this section or to seek a qualified protective order sufficient to meet the requirements of paragraph (e)(1)(v) of this section.”
45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(ii)(B), (vi)For a records request, we prepare the papers under the rule, and your written quote confirms the steps, before you pay.
Get a Free Quote Online →Each of these points comes from a Wyoming rule. Most come from the venue, the subpoena’s contents or the service rules.
Before service, we compare the papers we prepare with the rules and raise anything that needs your input.
Type a town, city or ZIP code to find the county, and the finder names that county’s district court.
The Wyoming Judicial Branch, Find a Court lists each district court by county.
A witness may sit just over the line, so the route changes with the state. Each “No” rests on that state’s own rule text; “Check” means confirm that state’s filing rules for an out-of-state requester.
| State | Act Adopted | Local Attorney Required by the Act | Who Issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | W.R.C.P. 28(c) (added 2017, amended 2021) | No | Clerk of the district court, discovery county |
| Colorado | C.R.S. §§ 13-90.5-101 to 13-90.5-107 (L. 2008) | No | Clerk of the district court, discovery county |
| Nebraska | Neb. Ct. R. § 6-330(A) (eff. Feb. 16, 2021, amended 2025) | No | Clerk of the district court, discovery county |
| Idaho | I.R.C.P. 45(j), a court rule effective July 1, 2009 (current text July 1, 2016) | No | Clerk of court, discovery county |
| Montana | M. R. Civ. P. 28(c) (eff. Oct. 1, 2011) | No | Clerk of court, discovery county |
| South Dakota | SDCL 15-6-28.1 to 15-6-28.6 (eff. July 1, 2012) | No | Clerk of court, discovery county |
| Utah | Utah Code §§ 78B-17-101 to 78B-17-302 (2008 ch. 278) | Check | District Court clerk, judicial district of discovery |
Each answer cites a Wyoming rule or statute. For questions that apply in every state, see our Subpoena Domestication FAQ. General information, not legal advice.
Yes. Wyoming put the uniform procedure into its civil rules in 2017 as Rule 28(c), so no commission or court order is needed: under Rule 28(c)(2)(B) the clerk “shall promptly issue” a subpoena once the foreign one is submitted. Wyo. Stat. § 1-12-115, which lets a foreign commission compel testimony, remains on the books as an older, separate route. See the rule cards.
The clerk in the county where the deposition, production or inspection will happen, not where the lawsuit sits. Rule 28(c)(2)(A) sends the foreign subpoena to the discovery county, and Rule 28(c)(5) sends any later motion to that county’s court. Look the county up in the finder.
No. Submitting it is not an appearance, so the rule asks for no local lawyer at that step. Counsel usually comes in if motion practice follows: then a member of the Wyoming State Bar moves the trial court to let the visiting lawyer appear in that matter, and that member stays on as local counsel. See the appearance card.
No. Under Rule 84 the civil rules come without forms, so the out-of-state papers themselves serve as the request. The drafting effort goes into the Wyoming subpoena instead, which repeats the foreign terms and lists every lawyer and unrepresented party with contact details. We draft it around your papers; see the route.
Wyo. Stat. § 5-2-114 lets the Wyoming Supreme Court adopt and change rules governing pleading, practice and procedure in all courts, so interstate discovery lives in W.R.C.P. 28(c). Rule 83 bars any court from making rules of procedure that apply only in that court, so one text governs all 23 counties. See the rule cards.
The Rule 45(b)(1) list is short: sheriffs, deputies and adults outside the case. Rule 28(c)(3) routes the clerk-issued subpoena through that rule, so nothing more is asked of the server. Our servers are adults with no stake in the case, and the certified return goes to you signed. See the service cards.
Yes. In a Wyoming trial, Rule 45(b)(1) adds the state-employee per diem for a witness living outside the county where the action is pending, paid after the hearing or trial. Wyo. Stat. § 1-12-105 also lets a trial witness demand travel fees and a day’s attendance before being sworn. A deposition carries only the tender at service; see the fee card.
One certified statement does it. The server signs a dated account of how and on whom the papers were served, and it is filed with the issuing clerk only when proof is needed, Rule 45(b)(2). Ours comes to you signed and dated; see the proof card.
Rule 45(a)(4) puts the party notice first: everyone in the case hears of a documents or inspection subpoena before it reaches the witness. A deposition adds the Rule 30(b) notice, which lists whatever the subpoena duces tecum demands. Those notices come from the issuing side, not the witness; see the notice cards.
Name the entity and describe the topics with reasonable particularity, Rule 30(b)(6); the company then designates the people who testify for it. A nonparty company must be told of that duty in the subpoena itself, and Rule 28(c)(4) carries Rule 30 over to the Wyoming subpoena. See the organization card.
Fourteen days after service, or earlier when compliance is set sooner, Rule 45(c)(2)(B). An objection stops inspection until the issuing court orders it, and the serving side may then move to compel on notice. Count the fourteenth day with the deadline calculator.
A Wyoming resident attends only in the county where the person resides, is employed or regularly transacts business in person. A nonresident attends only in the county where the subpoena was served. Either way, a court order may fix another convenient place, and Rule 45(c)(3)(A)(ii) makes travel outside those counties a ground to quash. See the place card.
The court for the discovery county hears it, Rule 28(c)(5), applying Wyoming rules or statutes, not the court where the lawsuit sits. The grounds it weighs, from short compliance time to privilege and undue burden, are on the quash card; the filing court is on the motions card.
No. Producing the records is enough when the subpoena commands nothing else; only a separate command to testify brings the custodian in person, Rule 45(c)(2)(A). For use in a Wyoming proceeding, a custodian’s certification under W.R.E. 902(11) can authenticate business records, with written notice to the adverse party first. See the records cards.
Wyo. Stat. § 1-12-101 keeps a physician from testifying about a patient’s communication without the patient’s express consent, and § 35-2-618 makes medical staff committee records confidential and privileged. Section 35-2-609 of the hospital-records article was repealed in 2019. Federal 45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e) adds notice or protective-order assurances; see the health care cards.
No. The clerk acts promptly through that court’s own procedure, with no count of days, Rule 28(c)(2)(B). A complete submission keeps the step moving: the foreign subpoena with every attachment, the witness, all counsel and unrepresented parties, and the dates you need. The route lays out each stage.
Any time that is not reasonable for the custodian. No count of days is fixed anywhere in the rule; a schedule too tight for the custodian to respond is a ground the court must act on when timely raised, Rule 45(c)(3)(A)(i). A compliance date later than the objection period lets the custodian object first, Rule 45(c)(2)(B); see the timing card.
The side that issues the subpoena, at the moment of service, and only when attendance is commanded, Rule 45(b)(1). Wyo. Stat. § 1-14-102 sets the minimum day and half-day amounts, and § 9-3-103 ties mileage to the IRS ceiling. We advance the tender in your quote; see the fee cards.
No. The written quote comes before any payment and covers preparing the Wyoming subpoena, any charge the clerk in the discovery county applies, and service if you order it. Rule 28(c)(2)(B) has the clerk act in accordance with that court’s procedure, so the quote is figured for that county. The route shows where the clerk step falls.
Three steps: drafting the Wyoming subpoena with the foreign terms and counsel list under Rule 28(c)(2)(C), the clerk’s issuance in the discovery county and, when you order it, delivery to the witness under Rule 45(b)(1) with a signed return. The written quote comes before payment. See the route, or start online.
One written quote covers document preparation, any issuer’s or clerk’s fee and service if ordered.
