§ 2033.030.Number of admission requests; limitations;

This section fixes the numeric ceiling that shapes how requests for admission are drafted in ordinary practice. Absent a supporting declaration, a party may request no more than 35 admissions that do not concern the genuineness of a document, as a matter of right. If an initial set uses fewer than all 35, the unused balance carries forward and can be requested in a later set, so nothing is lost by not front-loading every request into a single service.

Requests asking a party to admit that a document is genuine sit outside this cap entirely. Their number is not limited by count at all, only by the general protective-order standard: a court can still cut back an oversized or abusive set of document-genuineness requests to guard the responding party from unwarranted annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden and expense. And the 35-request cap on other matters is self-enforcing on the response side. If a propounding party serves more than 35 non-genuineness requests without attaching the declaration Section 2033.050 requires, the responding party need only answer the first 35 and may object to the rest on the specific ground that the limit has been exceeded.