Finals I Flashcards
Request that opposition admit or deny under oath statements of fact opinion or applications of law to fact.
Requests for admission
Interrogatories
Written questions to be answered in writing and under oath.
Oral testimony recorded by a court reporter
Deposition
Request for production of documents and tangible evidence or for entry into real property.
Document request
Medical examination of party upon request
Independent medical examination
Strategic plan for discovery to be conducted during litigation.
Discovery plan
Limitation on trial evidence that it must be related to the issues in dispute.
Relevancy
Communications between participants in a relationship that as a result of public privacy cannot be discovered.
Privilege
Confidential communications between attorney and client in the process of providing legal advise.
Attorney client privilege
In state court termination of most discovery 30 days before trial.
30 day cutoff
Ask or demand
Propound
Declaration of counsel in an unlimited civil case justifying written discovery in excess of 35 interrogatories or requests for admission
Declaration of necessity
Order of court limiting activities of one party against another. Such as specified order limiting productivity.
Protective order
Motion for order requiring respondent to provide additional answers in discovery
Motion to compel further answers
Statutory requirement that counsel attempt to resolve discovery disputes before moving for court orders.
Meet and confer
Motion for an order to compel answers after respondent fails to respond
Motion to compel answers
Request for admission concerning authenticity of documents
Genuineness of documents
Statements of ultimate facts of the case
Legal conclusions
Motion to avoid responding to discovery
Motion for protective order
Notice to parties that deposition will take place
Notice of deposition
Licensed stenographer who transcribes testimony
Court reporter
Statements made that are not reported by the court reporter
Off the record
Request that the court reporter make a list of specified questions at the beginning of the deposition transcripts
Certify the question
Deposition summary where information is rearranged in chronological order.
Chronological summary
Deposition summary listing topics
Topic summary
Document compelling production of tangible evidence usually by a third party
Subpoena duces tecum
Agree
Stipulate
List of privileged documents withheld from production
Privilege log
A stamp for numbering documents
Bates stamp
Collections of evidentiary documents referring and relating to potential witnesses for the case.
Witness files
Logging documents and their features
Indexing
Documents with particular relive nice to the case
Key documents
