{"id":6306,"date":"2017-11-03T01:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T01:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6306"},"modified":"2017-11-04T20:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:00:59","slug":"motion-for-more-definite-statement-to-request-that-the-court-require-an-opponent-to-amend-a-vague-or-ambiguous-pleading-to-which-the-party-cannot-reasonably-be-required-to-respond","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6306","title":{"rendered":"Motion for More Definite Statement – to request that the court require\u00a0an opponent to amend a vague or ambiguous pleading to which the party cannot\u00a0reasonably be required to respond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motion for More Definite Statement<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>(1904) A party\u2019s request that the court require\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>an opponent to amend a vague or ambiguous pleading<\/a> to which the party cannot\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>reasonably be required to respond. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c)<\/a>.\u00a0 Also termed motion for a\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>more definite statement<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Charles Alan Wright’s\u00a0The Law of Federal Courts<\/a><\/em> (5th ed. 1994):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAnother disfavored motion is the motion for a more<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\ndefinite statement. By a 1948 amendment to the rules, the old\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>bill of particulars was abolished.\u00a0 The motion for more definite\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>statement, which serves much the same function, is to be\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>granted only where a pleading<\/a> to which a responsive pleading\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>is permitted is so vague or ambiguous that the party cannot\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>reasonably be required to frame a responsive pleading.\u00a0 If the\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>pleading is sufficiently definite that the opponent can reply to\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>it, the motion for more definite statement should be denied and<\/strong><\/span>
\nany particulars that the opponent needs to prepare for trial\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>obtained by depositions, interrogatories, & similar discovery\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>procedures. The motion is never proper where no responsive\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>pleading is permitted, nor should it be used to force the\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>plaintiff to include additional particulars that may make the\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>complaint<\/a> vulnerable to a motion to dismiss.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>[2]<\/span><\/p>\n

References:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[1]:\u00a0Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0Deluxe Tenth Edition\u00a0<\/i>by Henry Campbell Black & Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner<\/a>. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a0Charles Alan Wright, The Law of Federal Courts<\/a> 5 66, at 461<\/strong><\/span>\u00ab~62 (5th ed. 1994)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Motion for More Definite Statement: \u201c(1904) A party\u2019s request that the court require\u00a0an opponent to amend a vague or ambiguous pleading to which the party cannot\u00a0reasonably be required to respond. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c).\u00a0 Also termed motion for a\u00a0more definite statement.\u201d\u00a0[1] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Charles Alan Wright’s\u00a0The Law of Federal Courts (5th ed. … Continue reading Motion for More Definite Statement – to request that the court require\u00a0an opponent to amend a vague or ambiguous pleading to which the party cannot\u00a0reasonably be required to respond<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6641,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6310,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6306\/revisions\/6310"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}