NUMBER AND SCOPE OF INTERROGATORIES. Rule 33 (a), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , restricts to 25 (including all discrete subparts) the number of interrogatories a party may serve on any other party.
Interrogatories allow the parties to ask who, what, when, where and why questions, making them a good method for obtaining new information in a case. There are two types of interrogatories: form interrogatories and special interrogatories.
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.
NUMBER AND SCOPE OF INTERROGATORIES. Rule 33 (a), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , restricts to 25 (including all discrete subparts) the number of interrogatories a party may serve on any other party.
Each party is allowed to serve 25 interrogatories upon any other party, but must secure leave of court (or a stipulation from the opposing party) to serve a larger number.
Interrogatories are limited to the parties in a certain case. Thus, nonparties are not obligated to respond to interrogatories.
Under the Federal Rules and parallel state rules, litigants may use what are called “contention interrogatories” to explore adversaries' factual support for their legal contentions. Courts normally regulate the timing of those, generally prohibiting litigants from using that tactic too early in the discovery process.
The working group's professionalism proposal, Rule 1.279: Standards of Conduct for Discovery, cautions against “surprise tactics, delay, trickery, and concealment of discoverable information” and reminds attorneys that “not meeting discovery obligations by delay, obstructing the truth, or failing to be candid with the ...
An interrogatory is a request for information, in the form of standard questions, that must be answered in writing and then notarized. In Florida, there are two types of interrogatories used in family law proceedings.
Under the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 1.340, any party may serve upon any other party written interrogatories to be answered 1) by the party the interrogatories are directed to or 2) if that party is a public or private corporation, a partnership or association, or a governmental agency, by any officer or ...