Practice question
A defendant has already obtained the one permitted answer-extension motion. It files a second such motion, asserting that any request automatically gives another thirty calendar days. Which is best?
- Every request automatically extends time
- The word motion is itself an extension order
- Section11 limits the defendant to one motion; a second request cannot claim an automatic extension under that provision
- Answer periods are always optional
- The plaintiff’s silence is necessarily a new court order
Legal references
- AM19-10-20-SC Rule11 Section11: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html
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