§ 2033.070.Service of request

This section handles the mechanics of getting a set of requests for admission to everyone who needs to see it. The core obligation runs to the party being asked to admit something, that party must be served with a copy. Because a civil action often has more than two sides, the requesting party also has to serve every other party who has already appeared in the case, so nobody litigating the same lawsuit is kept in the dark about what discovery is being exchanged.

Unlike the parallel service section for interrogatories, this section contains no built-in mechanism for asking a court to excuse service on every other appeared party. The obligation stated here applies without a stated exception, meaning a party requesting admissions in a case with many parties has to plan for serving all of them rather than assuming relief from that burden will be available on request.