§ 2033.210.Form and content of response

This section supplies the basic architecture every response to a request for admission has to follow. Each request gets its own separate response, given in writing and under oath, and that response has to either answer the substance of the requested admission or state an objection to that particular request. The response's caption has to identify the responding and requesting parties and the set number, and each answer or objection must carry the same number or letter as its corresponding request, in the same order, though the request's own text does not have to be repeated unless the electronic-exchange rule applies.

This section modernizes the exchange process for parties who want it. On request, the requesting party must supply the admissions requests themselves in electronic format within three court days, and the responding party must reciprocate with the responses in electronic format within three court days of a request made after the responses are served. The parties can agree on whatever file format and transmission method they like; absent agreement, the fallback is plain text sent by email to an address the requesting party supplies. A party need not create an electronic version of something that never existed in that format. And a responding party who receives the requests electronically has to include the actual request text immediately before its answer.