Requests for Admission
(Plaintiff to Defendant) (Federal)

Summary

This template is a set of requests for admission (RFA) that may be used by a plaintiff in a federal district court case. It contains example requests and drafting notes. Requests for admission to parties are used to establish facts about which there is no real dispute. Fed. R. Civ. P. 36. These can be particularly helpful in expediting and streamlining litigation and can save litigants valuable time and substantial money. You may serve a written request for the admission of matters about the following: • Statements or opinions of fact • The application of law to fact or opinions thereabout • The genuineness of documents For a full listing of key content covering fundamental civil litigation tasks throughout a federal court litigation lifecycle, see Civil Litigation Fundamentals Resource Kit (Federal). For more on RFAs, see Requests for Admission: Drafting and Serving RFAs (Federal) and Requests for Admission: Responding to RFAs (Federal).