- Governed by Rule 33.
- A party may serve on any other party no more than 25 written interrogatories, including all discrete subparts.
- Responding party must answer in writing and under oath.
- Ways to get more interrogatories:
- Going to the court and asking for more
- Scope of Case is too large, etc....
- Stipulation by Opposing Counsel
- Opposing counsel grants, interrogatories increase—usually part of a trade.
- When would you use interrogatories?
- To figure out what to request in a Rule 34 Request for Production
- To use a cheaper discovery tool
- When you need the opposing party to do research under legal authority/obligation for you.
- Why wouldn't you use interrogatories?
- You can't ask follow up questions if you've exhausted all of your interrogatories.