District of Columbia procedural guides

Plain-English guides to the District of Columbia Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure, each one tied to the rules it relies on. Every rule named in a guide has its own page with the official text.

• Responding to a D.C. complaint: 21 days, and a 14-day grace on defaultsD.C. Superior Court Rule 12(a) gives 21 days after service to answer, 60 days for government defendants — and a default entered on the court's own initiative does not take effect for 14 days.
• Setting aside a DC default: fourteen days before it even takes effectA District of Columbia default entered on the court's own initiative does not take effect for 14 days, and the clerk cannot enter judgment at all in a consumer debt collection action.
• The DC motion to dismiss: six grounds, and sixty days if you are suing the governmentD.C. Superior Court Rule 12 lists six defenses — venue is not among them — and gives the District and its officers 60 days to answer instead of 21.

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