Dauphin Cnty. C.P. Rule 4006 - Standard Interrogatories-Document Requests

* RULE 4006. STANDARD INTERROGATORIES/DOCUMENTS REQUESTS.

(a) The Court from time to time may approve sets of standard interrogatories

and/or document requests. Each such set shall be approved by a

standing order, to remain in effect and apply to all civil actions then

pending or filed thereafter until vacated or superseded by a new standing

order.

(b) Interrogatories and document requests included within such standing

orders, when served in an appropriate civil action, are presumptively

permissible and not subject to objection on any of these bases:

relevance, materiality, burden, expense, vagueness, or lack of clarity.

(c) Counsel are admonished to select only useful items from the standard

interrogatories and document requests, and not to serve them as a group in

every case. The forty-question limit of Local Rule 4005 shall not be modified by

this provision; each interrogatory chosen from the set of standard interrogatories

shall count as one of the forty questions.

(d) The Prothonotary and the Dauphin County Bar Association shall maintain for

public inspection the text of the current approved set of standard interrogatories

and document requests, and further shall make copies of the same available for

purchase at a reasonable charge.

* Effective April 26, 1993