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MARYLAND RULES OF PROCEDURE
TITLE 2 - CIVIL PROCEDURE -- CIRCUIT COURT
CHAPTER 400 - DISCOVERY
AMEND Rule 2-421 to delete the phrase “at any time” from
section (a) and to make a certain stylistic change, as follows:
Rule 2-421. INTERROGATORIES TO PARTIES
(a) Availability; Number
Any party may serve at any time written interrogatories
directed to any other party. Unless the court orders otherwise,
a party may serve one or more sets having a cumulative total of
not more than 30 interrogatories to be answered by the same
party. Interrogatories, however grouped, combined, or arranged
and even though subsidiary or incidental to or dependent upon
other interrogatories, shall be counted separately. Each form
interrogatory contained in the Appendix to these Rules shall
count as a single interrogatory.
. . .
Source: This Rule is derived as follows:
Section (a) is derived in part from former Rule 417 a 1 and 2
and is in part new.
Section (b) is derived from former Rule 417 b 1 and 2.
Section (c) is derived from former Rule 417 f and FRCP 33 (c)
the 1980 version of Fed. R. Civ. P. 33 (c).
Section (d) is derived from former Rule 417 d.
REPORTER’S NOTE
The proposed deletion of the phrase “at any time” from
section (a) of Rules 2-421 and 2-422 is in response to Pittman v.
-63-