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Steps Of The Discovery Process. There are four key actions in the discovery process which include interrogatories, request for documents, request for admissions, and depositions.

Unless your written response includes only objections without any factual assertions, it must be verified.

You must complete discovery 30 days before your trial If you are the plaintiff, you can begin discovery 10 days after you serve the first papers in the case or anytime after the defendant files a response.

Civ. P. 33(b)(1)(B), (3) and (5), and Petitioner never moved to compel a proper verification.? Under Rule 33, answers to interrogatories must be verified and must be signed by the person answering the interrogatory, not only by the party's attorney.

Beginning on January 1, 2024, parties will be required to make initial witness and document disclosures within 60 days of another party's request.

If your case is an unlimited civil case (over $35,000) you may ask up to 35 special interrogatories, but may ask more with a declaration explaining the need for additional requests and a statement that the request is not done for an improper purpose.

Of course, unless only objections are served, a party must verify its responses to written discovery. A party can verify discovery responses with a declaration or affidavit. The responding party's verified signature on a response to discovery is a declaration that it has disclosed all the information available to it.

All discovery must be completed not later than 15 days before the date set for the arbitration hearing unless the court, upon a showing of good cause, makes an order granting an extension of the time within which discovery must be completed.

Unless your written response includes only objections without any factual assertions, it must be verified. This means it must include a statement under the penalty of perjury that your response is true and correct. (CCP § 2031.250). Failure to include this verification has the same effect as not responding at all.