If the opposing side does not respond to your form interrogatories, special interrogatories, or request for production, you may file a motion seeking an order compelling the opposing party to respond.
Standard Timeframe in NY: Under NY CPLR 3130, a party may serve written interrogatories upon another party after the commencement of an action. Typically, the recipient has 30 days from the date of service to respond.
Interrogatories shall be answered in writing under oath by the party served, if an individual, or, if the party served is a corporation, a partnership or a sole proprietorship, by an officer, director, member, agent or employee having the information.
The written response must be made within 20 days of personal service, or within 30 days of the time when service by any other means is complete. If the defendant fails to respond he or she is in default and plaintiff may be able to obtain a default judgment against the defendant.
Standard Timeframe in NY: Under NY CPLR § 3130, a party may serve written interrogatories upon another party after the commencement of an action. Typically, the recipient has 20 days from the date of service to respond under CPLR § 3133(a).
Complete Your Responses to the Interrogatories You must respond to each request individually. You do not need to repeat the text of the question, but your responses must be in the same order as the requests, and each response should be labeled with the same number or letter as the request.
Service Upon a Government Agency (in most cases): The City of New York shall be served by personal delivery of the initiating papers to the Corporation Counsel, 100 Church Street, New York, N.Y. or to any person designated to receive process therefor in a writing filed in the County Clerk's Office, New York County.
If repeated, genuine attempts at personal and substituted service have failed, the papers may be served by (1) affixing the papers to the door of either the actual place of business, dwelling place or usual place of abode within the state of the person to be served, and (2) either mailing the papers to the person to be ...
Standard Timeframe in NY: Under NY CPLR 3130, a party may serve written interrogatories upon another party after the commencement of an action. Typically, the recipient has 30 days from the date of service to respond.