The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure states that "The court may strike from a pleading an insufficient defense or any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter." Similarly, for example, the California Code of Civil Procedure provides that a motion to strike may be made to strike out any "irrelevant, ...
First, a motion is simply a request to the court that is put into writing. A motion to strike means that we are asking the court to throw out the answer that was submitted by the defense lawyer.
Rule 202.70. 11-d - Limitations on Depositions (a) Unless otherwise stipulated to by the parties or ordered by the court: (1) the number of depositions taken by plaintiffs, or by defendants, or by third-party defendants, shall be limited to 10; and (2) depositions shall be limited to 7 hours per deponent.
Section 202.8-g - Motions for Summary Judgment; Statements of Material Facts (a) Upon any motion for summary judgment, other than a motion made pursuant to CPLR 3213, the court may direct that there shall be annexed to the notice of motion a separate, short and concise statement, in numbered paragraphs, of the material ...
Rule 12(f) provides in relevant part that on motion or sua sponte, “the court may strike from a pleading . . . any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter.” If Lexis annotations are a guide, relatively few litigants file Rule 12(f) motions on those grounds—and with good reason.
Specifically, pursuant to Uniform Rule 202.7 (f), upon an application for an order to show cause that seeks a temporary restraining order, the application must contain an affirmation demonstrating that there will be significant prejudice to the party seeking the restraining order by the giving of notice.
22 CRR-NY 202.8-CRR (1) affidavits, affirmations, briefs and memoranda of law in chief shall be limited to 7,000 words each; (2) reply affidavits, affirmations, and memoranda shall be no more than 4,200 words and shall not contain any arguments that do not respond or relate to those made in the memoranda in chief.
A word count of 400 words will result in around four-fifths of a page single spaced and and one and three-fifths of a page double spaced. Although it can vary, with a conventional page setup—Times New Roman or Arial 12 point font and default margins—400 words should be the same across most word processing software.
A motion to strike is a request by one party in a United States trial requesting that the presiding judge order the removal of all or part of the opposing party's pleading to the court.