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Trial court erred in denying plaintiffs motion for a new trial where jury initially rendered general verdict for plaintiff, but after court sent jury back three times for further deliberations, it rendered judgment for defendant; judge advised of but failed to correct erroneous interrogatory instruction prior to deliberations, and upon sending jury back to deliberate further, did not read or explain interrogatories or verdict forms to jury and did not provide jury with new interrogatories but handwrote change on the form; despite judges conclusion, not apparent that jurys initial verdict for plaintiff and interrogatory answers were inconsistent; thus, significant irregularities in jury deliberations denied plaintiff a fair trial.
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... deposition be taken either orally or in the form of written interrogatories, and may issue a subpoe...
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... to complete a financial information request form, answer written interrogatories, or submit indepen...
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The federal rules of civil procedure were intended by their drafters to be a model for states to adopt, thereby promoting national procedural uniformity. This Article proposes that the next great wave of procedural reform in American civil justice emanate from the states themselves in the form of a national code of state civil procedure. The willingness of states to chart their own paths toward civil justice reform presents both a problem and an opportunity. A central thesis of the Article is that national procedural uniformity among state courts remains a desirable, viable, and achievable goal despite the failure of the top-down federal-rules-model approach to achieve that goal. The momentum for developing uniform state procedural rules must, however, originate with the states themselv...
... presumptive numerical limits on interrogatories and depositions.232. In June, 1994, the Alaska Sup...
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...(d) Objections to the form of written interrogatories are waived unless serve...
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... may receive and consider evidence in the form of depositions or responses to interrogatories upo...
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... body and statements made in the form of depositions, interrogatories, declarations, aff...
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...Subpart L: Depositions, Written Interrogatories, and Discovery. 502.209 - Use of depositions at h... lawfully taken and duly filed in the former proceeding may be used in the latter as if origina...
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...Because the verdict form allowed the jury to make a damages award after fin... form consisted of six special interrogatories, covering each claim asserted against the Bank, wi...
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..., recordings, data stored in electronic form, and other data compilations from which informatio...Discovery by use of interrogatories may be permitted. This paragraph shall not be inte...