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6 PROPOUNDING PARTY: ANY DEFENDANT

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RESPONDING PARTY: ANY PLAINTIFF
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TO: PLAINTIFF, NAME OF PLAINTIFF AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD:

11 Defendant, NAME OF DEFENDANT hereby requests that Plaintiff, NAME OF

12 PLAINTIFF, answer the following special interrogatories, separately and fully in writing and under
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oath, pursuant to Code Of Civil Procedure 2030.010, et. seq within five (5) days of date of service
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or ten (10) days if these special interrogatories are served by mail.
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INSTRUCTIONS TO THE ANSWERING PARTY
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17 (a) An answer or other appropriate response must be given to each interrogatory checked

18 by the asking party. Failure to respond to these interrogatories properly can be punished by sanctions,
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including contempt proceedings, fine, attorneys fees, and the loss of your case. See Code of Civil
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(b) As a general rule, within five days after you are served with these interrogatories, you
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 1 (c) Each answer must be as complete and straightforward as the information reasonably
2 available to you permits. If an interrogatory cannot be answered completely, answer it to the extent
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possible.
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5 (d) If you do not have enough personal knowledge to fully answer an interrogatory, say
6 so, but make a reasonable and good faith effort to get the information by asking other persons or
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organizations, unless the information is equally available to the asking party.
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9 (e) Whenever an interrogatory may be answered by referring to a document, the

10 document may be attached as an exhibit to the response and referred to in the response. If the
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document has more than one page, refer to the page and section where the answer to the interrogatory
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can be found.
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14 (f) Whenever an address and telephone number for the same person are requested in more
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than one interrogatory, you are required to furnish them in answering only the first interrogatory
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asking for that information.
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(g) Your answers to these interrogatories must be verified, dated, and signed. You may
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wish to use the following form at the end of your answers:
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21 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing
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answers are true and correct.
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Words in BOLDFACE CAPITALS in these interrogatories are defined as follows:
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 1 (a) PERSON includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership,
2 business, trust, corporation, or public entity.
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4 (b) PLAINTIFF includes any PERSON who seeks recovery of the RENTAL UNIT

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whether acting as an individual or on someone else's behalf and includes all such PERSONS if more
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7 than one.
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(c) LANDLORD includes any PERSON who offered the RENTAL UNIT for rent and
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10 any PERSON on whose behalf the RENTAL UNIT was offered for rent and their successors in

11 interest. LANDLORD includes all PERSONS who managed the PROPERTY while defendant was
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in possession.
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14 (d) RENTAL UNIT is the premises PLAINTIFF seeks to recover.

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(e) PROPERTY is the building or parcel (including common areas) of which the
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RENTAL UNIT is a part. (For example, if PLAINTIFF is seeking to recover possession of
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18 apartment number 12 of a 20-unit building, the building is the PROPERTY and apartment 12 is the

19 RENTAL UNIT. If PLAINTIFF seeks possession of cottage number 3 in a five- cottage court or
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complex, the court or complex is the PROPERTY and cottage 3 is the RENTAL UNIT.)
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