Motion for Discovery Sanctions: Making and Opposing the Motion Checklist (Federal)

Summary

This checklist discusses how to move for and oppose discovery sanctions in a federal case in the absence of a prior court order and covers topics such as the requirements of Rules 37(c), 37(d), 37(f), and 26(g)(3) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; strategy; timing for making a motion for sanctions; defenses to the motion; types of sanctions available; and scenarios like failure to comply with disclosure requirements, improper certification for discovery, total failure to respond to discovery, and failure to admit the genuineness of a document.