WSR 15-23-031
RULES OF COURT
STATE SUPREME COURT
[November 4, 2015]
IN THE MATTER OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO CR 33—INTERROGATORIES TO PARTIES
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ORDER
NO. 25700-A-1117
The Washington State Bar Association, having recommended the expeditious adoption of the Proposed Amendment to CR 33—Interrogatories to Parties, and the Court having considered the amendments and comments submitted thereto, and having determined that the proposed amendments will aid in the prompt and orderly administration of justice;
Now, therefore, it is hereby
ORDERED:
(a) That the new rules as shown below are adopted.
(b) That the new rules will be published expeditiously in the Washington Reports and will become effective upon publication.
DATED at Olympia, Washington this 4th day of November, 2015.
 
 
Madsen, C.J.
Johnson, J.
 
Wiggins, J.
Owens, J.
 
Gonzalez, J.
Fairhurst, J.
 
Gordon McCloud, J.
Stephens, J.
 
Yu, J.
 
Civil Rule 33
(a)-(b) [Unchanged.]
(c) Option To Produce Business Records. Where the answer to an interrogatory may be derived or ascertained from the business records, including electronically stored information, of the party upon whom the interrogatory has been served or from an examination, audit or inspection of such business records, or from a compilation, abstract or summary based thereon, and the burden of deriving or ascertaining the answer is substantially the same for the party serving the interrogatory as for the party served, it is sufficient answer to such interrogatory to specify the records from which the answer may be derived or ascertained and to afford to the party serving the interrogatory reasonable opportunity to examine, audit or inspect such records and to make copies, compilations, abstracts or summaries. A specification shall be in sufficient detail to permit the interrogating party to locate and to identify, as readily as can the party served, the records from which the answer may be ascertained.
Reviser's note: The brackets and enclosed material in the text of the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appear in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.