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100
Written Questions to the other party requesting written answers
What are Interrogatories?
100
Although often prepared by a paralegal, what the client is required to do when answering ATI's
What is review and sign?
100
The individual answering questions during the deposition
What is Deponent?
100
The censoring or obscuring of part of the text of a document being produced in discovery
What is Redacting?
100
The legal procedure used to gather evidence for a lawsuit
What is discovery
200
The number of interrogatories that can be filed in an Illinois Court
What is Thirty (30)?
200
If an expert is to testify at trial this must be done in discovery
What is disclose the expert?
200
A court order requiring a witness or other non party to appear at a certain time and date to give testimony
What is a subpoena?
200
The destruction or material alteration of evidence
What is Spoliation?
200
Pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court Rule 214, a party would file this to ask for permission to access any real estate that is “relevant to the subject matter of the action.”
What is a Request for Inspection of Property
300
A party's response to written questions
What are Answers to Interrogatories (ATIs)?
300
Served on opposing counsel's attorney to schedule the OC's client's deposition or to notify OC of a scheduled subpoena deposition, will include date/time and place, how it will be recorded and any documents to bring.
What is a Notice of Deposition?
300
What can be done if discoery requested in protected by a privilege or is work product
What is object?
300
Documents that are stored on a computer, such as E-mail, are called this (Not E-Discovery)
What is Electronically Stored Information (ESI)
400
The number of interrogatories that can be filed in Federal Court
What is twenty-five (25)?
400
A short summary of the transcript of a deposition that assists the attorney at trial to find the testimony quickly for impeachment purposes
What is an abstract?
400
A court order to obtain records or documents
What is a subpoena duces tecum?
400
A discovery device that allows one party to request that another party admit or deny the truth of statement or verify that a document is the truthful
What is a Request to Admit Facts or Genuineness of Documents
400
The federal law that grants the public access to information possessed by a government agency
What is Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?
500
The defendant would file this when asking for the plaintiff to be examined by a doctor of defendant's choosing (or vice versa)
What is a Request for a Medical Exam?
500
An object that is real and substantial that is part of a Request to Produce Documents and Other ____ Things
What is Tangible?
500
What can be filed if the other side does not respond to your discovery even after numerous phone calls
What is a Motion to Compel?
500
Prevents a disclosure in a legal proceeding that would prejudice the rights of a party or prevent the legal process from being used to harass, embarrass or cause someone undue burden or expense
What is a protective order
500
The Illinois Supreme Court Rule that requires attorneys to work out their differences before asking the court to resolve them
What is ISCR 201(k)?