Section 3.34 Determination of Objections to Interrogatories

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If objections are filed, the party propounding the interrogatories may either abandon the questions objected to by inaction, or the party may call the objections up for hearing. The fact that the party seeking discovery has the burden to bring the objections to the court’s attention does not shift the burden of persuasion on the objections away from the party making them. Advisory Committee Notes (1970) to FED. R. CIV. P. 33. The objecting party has the burden of showing why the interrogatory is improper...