Refresher On The Rules Governing Discovery Disputes
(October 2011) By Kevin M. Cox, Associate
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Anderson v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., (D. Md.) (Oct. 11, 2011)

Boilerplate objections are expressly prohibited by Fed. R. Civ. P. 33(b)(4), which provides that “[t]he grounds for objecting to an interrogatory must be stated with specificity.” Case law states that objections to discovery, including Rule 33 Interrogatories and Rule 34 Document Production Requests, must be specific, non-boilerplate, and supported by particularized facts where necessary to demonstrate the basis for the objection.