Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-6-402 (2026)
Investigative demands for production of documents and testimony
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) For these purposes, the attorney general and reporter is empowered to issue civil investigative demands to require the attendance of witnesses or the submission of documents, or both, at specified times and places, to give testimony in the case or matter therein stated. The demand shall mention the parties to the inquiry and the party at whose instance the witness is called, and, if necessary, require the witness also to bring any books, documents, or other writings, records or tangible objects under the witness' control, which may be pertinent to the inquiry.
- (b) No witness called to testify or to produce records, books, documents, writings or other tangible objects under §§ 8-6-401 - 8-6-406 shall be required to testify in any county other than the witness' county of residence or the county where the records or tangible objects are found under the witness' control.
Acts 1976, ch. 646, § 2; T.C.A., § 8-631.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1981–2007 · leading case: McNiel v. Cooper, 241 S.W.3d 886 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2007).
McNiel v. Cooper, 241 S.W.3d 886 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2007). “Tenn.Code Ann. § 8-6-402(a) (2002) empowers the Attorney General and Reporter to issue civil investigative demands (CID) compelling persons to give testimony or to produce documents in any proceeding in which the state is a party litigant and may become a party litigant.”
State Ex Rel. Shriver v. Leech, 612 S.W.2d 454 (Tenn. 1981). “The form and content of the CID is set forth in T.C.A. § 8-6-402. That section states that testimony and documents may be required “in the case or matter therein stated” and that “the parties to the inquiry” shall be identified.”
Frank H. McNiel v. Susan R. Cooper, No. M2005-01206-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Mar. 13, 2007). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-6-402 (a) (2002) empowers the Attorney General and Reporter to issue civil investigative demands (CID) compelling persons to give testimony or to produce documents in any proceeding in which the state is a party litigant and may become a party litigant.”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-6-402(a): 1 case
McNiel v. Cooper, 241 S.W.3d 886 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2007). “Tenn.Code Ann. § 8-6-402(a) (2002) empowers the Attorney General and Reporter to issue civil investigative demands (CID) compelling persons to give testimony or to produce documents in any proceeding in which the state is a party litigant and may become a party litigant.”
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