What Is an Overbroad Request for Production?

Page 1. Order denying motion to compel overbroad request to produce. A perennial problem in family litigation is over broad discovery requests that ask for voluminous and burdensome productions of documents about a party's income, assets and liabilities.

What are interrogatories and request for production?

Interrogatories, which are written questions about things that are relevant or important to the case. (NRCP 33; JCRCP 33) Requests for production of documents or things, which are written requests that demand the other side provide particular documents or items.

What does overbroad objection mean?

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Blanket, unsupported objections that a discovery request is “vague, overly broad, or unduly burdensome” are, by themselves, meaningless, and disregarded by the Court. A party objecting on these bases must explain the specific and particular ways in which a request is vague, overly broad, or unduly burdensome.