Oregon procedural guides

Plain-English guides to the Oregon 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 an Oregon complaint: 30 days, and nine defenses you can raise by motionOregon gives 30 days from service to appear and defend. ORCP 21 A lists nine defenses that may be raised by motion instead of in the answer — a longer list than the federal rule's seven.
• Oregon discovery: there are no interrogatoriesORCP 36 A lists Oregon's discovery methods, and written interrogatories are not one of them. Oregon is the outlier among American civil systems, and it changes how a case is built.
• Oregon summary judgment: 60 days before trial, and a standard written into the ruleORCP 47 C requires the motion 60 days before trial, gives 20 days to oppose and 5 to reply — and it is one of the few rules that defines "no genuine issue" in its own text.
• Setting aside an Oregon judgment: ORCP 71, one year, and a pleading you must attachORCP 71 B gives five grounds for relief from an Oregon judgment. For the first three, the motion must be accompanied by a pleading asserting a claim or defense — and filed within one year.
• Amending an Oregon pleading: one free amendment, and what it means for a party already in defaultORCP 23 A gives one amendment as of right before a responsive pleading is served — and contains an unusual provision about serving amended pleadings on parties already in default.
• The Oregon ORCP 21 motion to dismiss: nine defenses, evidence without conversion, and one free jurisdiction motionORCP 21 A lists nine defenses that may be raised by motion — two more than the federal rule — lets the court decide most of them on evidence without converting to summary judgment, and exempts jurisdiction motions from the consolidation trap.
• Oregon depositions: no hour limit, a three-day designation rule, and a separate track for trial testimonyORCP 39 sets no cap on the length or number of depositions, requires an organization to designate its witnesses at least three days out, and runs perpetuation depositions on their own 14-day track.
• Oregon requests for admission: a warning in capital letters, 30 requests, and 45 days for a defendantORCP 45 requires every set of requests for admission to open with a capitalised warning that silence admits, caps the total at 30, and gives a defendant 45 days from service of the summons.
• Oregon post-trial motions: 10 days to file, 55 days to be decided, and one motion you must join or loseORCP 64 and 63 both give 10 days to move and 55 days for the court to rule, after which the motion is conclusively deemed denied — and a new trial motion not joined with a JNOV motion is waived.
• The Oregon motion to compel: list what you want at the top of the motionOregon ORCP 46 A(2) requires the motion to identify, at its beginning, the items sought — and includes insurance agreements and expert reports among the things you can compel.

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