Rule 94.07.Answer--Motions.

Rule 94.07 tells a respondent, and any parties below answering under Rule 94.06, what an answer in a mandamus case is supposed to address: the petition itself. That may sound obvious, but it changed how Missouri mandamus practice worked. Under the older approach, a respondent pleaded to an alternative writ of mandamus instead of the petition directly.

The rule also confirms that an answer is not a stand-alone document with no room for other filings. It may include one or more motions, or be accompanied by them, giving a respondent room to raise procedural or threshold arguments alongside, or as part of, the substantive response to the petition.