Limits on Discovery

**Arazu Toth** · 05-07-2012, 05:16 PM

My question involves court procedures for the state of: Washington

I am curious, in the past I always considered RFAs and NUIs to be their own animals - but if I interpret Fed.R.Civ.P 33(a)(1) directly, it appears I am limited to 25 COMBINED rather than 25 of each (i.e. 25 RFA and then 25 NUI).

Is this correct, or is the rule interpreted as allowing 25 for NUI and 25 for RFA?

**tex11** · 05-07-2012, 06:40 PM

When using non-standard or even made up acronyms, they should be preceeded at least once by the full text.

Assuming you are referring to Admissions and Interrogatories as different beasts, they are. So too is production of documents.

Requests for Admissions are controlled by FRCP 36. There are no numerical limits to these in FRCP,

Requests for Interrogatories FRCP 33. These are generally limited to 25

**Arazu Toth** · 05-07-2012, 08:43 PM

Sorry for the Acronyms. Yes, I meant Request for Admissions (RFA) and Non-Uniform Interrogatories (NUI).

So, unless local rules or court order overrides, the standard is 25 NUIs, but there's no limit on RFAs? That seems a bit odd as one could burden a party with a huge amount of RFAs...

**tex11** · 05-08-2012, 10:28 AM

Quoting Arazu Toth

...but there's no limit on RFAs? That seems a bit odd as one could burden a party with a huge amount of RFAs...

While one could conceivably burden a party with a lot of RFA's, an excess may cross the line into being viewed as harassing and subject to warnings by the court and sanctions. As a practical matter it takes more work to prepare and submit these than to respond.

**cmre3456** · 05-08-2012, 10:50 AM

Both of those, and requests for documents are ongoing. Be sure to find a sample which spells that out. It will, if nothing else let the OP know that you know and that you know you have remedies.

For instance, if in an answer a party declares insufficient knowledge to answer but later obtains that knowledge, she is obligated to answer it without prompting.

**Branden** · 07-05-2012, 11:00 PM

Do you have a pdf copy of the legislation?
I've been for it for a long time but couldn't find. One of my friend referred me to this forum and now
I'm here for. Would you like to accommodate me?
regards

**cmre3456** · 07-06-2012, 06:16 AM

Ummm, you aren't the originator of this thread. I'm not sure what you mean by legislation. The federal rules of civil procedure are posted all over the internet. They aren't necessarily "legislation" but you can easily find them.

This appears to be a pdf of them.

LINK

There are also local rules for different areas. You might want to look around this site a bit.

LINK