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What is Order to Compel Discovery? A motion asking the Court to Order a noncompliant party or witness to respond to a proper and duly served discovery request.

If the other person does not respond, or their response is still incomplete, you can ask the court to order them to respond. You have 45 days from the service of the most recent responses to ask the court to make an order requiring an answer. If the response was served by mail, 5 extra days are added.

If you receive a Motion to Dismiss or a Motion for Summary Judgment, you must respond no later than five business days before the motion is set for a hearing.

Courts enforce their orders by imposing sanctions on a party who fails to comply. Sanctions can be monetary, such as requiring one party to pay the other parties attorneys' fees and/or imposing a monetary fine, or they can hamper a party's ability to put on their case.

Once the court grants the motion to compel, the court will grant the other party a deadline before which the documents or information must be shared. If the person does not respect the order of the court, there may be severe consequences such as the dismissal of the other party's case or being in contempt of court.

The Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure do not contain a limit on the number of interrogatories. However, many state courts limit the number of interrogatories to 30 by local rule. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require discrete subparts to be counted as separate interrogatories.

A motion to compel asks the court to order either the opposing party or a third party to take some action. This sort of motion most commonly deals with discovery disputes, when a party who has propounded discovery to either the opposing party or a third party believes that the discovery responses are insufficient.

Motion for Sanctions – If the court issues an order compelling discovery, and the party fails to comply with that order, then the court may sanction the party in numerous ways such as refusing to let in the party's evidence at trial, dismissing their lawsuit, or striking their defense to a lawsuit, and imposing ...