Service Interrogatories With Multiple Parties In Massachusetts

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US-00316
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This Notice of Service of Interrogatories is used by Plaintiff to provide Defendant of notice that there is a request for Interrogatories, second request for production, response to interrogatories, or response to second requests for production. This Notice can be used in any state.

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“Service of Process” is the way you deliver court papers to the person required to respond to them. This person is called the “defendant.” You must tell the defendant, in writing: there is a case, what the case is about, what the defendant must do, if there is a court hearing, and when and where to come to court.

For over 100 years, Massachusetts Courts followed the colorfully-named “Common Enemy Rule”, which protected property owners who attempted to remove or divert surface water from their land.

You are eligible for retirement from the Massachusetts State Employee Retirement System (MSERS) at any age with twenty or more years of state service or at age 55 or 60 (depending on hire date) with 10 or more years of state service.

Discovery Rule in Massachusetts The discovery rule allows the statute of limitations to start when the injury was discovered or reasonably should have been discovered rather than from the actual incident date.

Unless otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, a party may serve on any other party no more than 25 written interrogatories, including all discrete subparts.

Rule 55(a) authorizes the entry of default when the opposing party has "failed to plead or otherwise defend".

Rule 56 - Summary Judgment (a)Motions for Summary Judgment. A party may move for summary judgment subsequent to the commencement of any proceeding under these rules except in actions for divorce or in actions for custody or visitation or for criminal contempt.

Rule 7 reflects the belief that extensive and complex pleadings are not desirable as a vehicle for the narrowing of issues in a case and that this function can be better performed by discovery and the use of the pretrial conference.

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Service Interrogatories With Multiple Parties In Massachusetts