30.4]
PRE-2024 COMMITTEE NOTE
This rule provides a useful summary of the rules regarding who may attend a
deposition, and the Committee recommends that it be extended to the Southern District
as well as the Eastern District. The exclusion-of-witnesses rule of Fed. R. Evid. 615 is
made inapplicable to depositions by Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(c)(1), but Fed. R. Civ. P.
26(c)(1)(E) allows the Court, for good cause, to “designat[e] the persons who may be
present while the discovery is conducted.”
