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Practice question: Verification and Certification Against Forum Shopping

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

An otherwise supportable factual allegation is specifically identified as expected to gain evidentiary support after a reasonable discovery opportunity. Is that qualification categorically excluded from Section 4(c)?
  1. Yes; every such allegation necessarily is perjury.
  2. No; the rule expressly recognizes the specified qualification.
  3. Yes; discovery is abolished.
  4. Yes; all allegations may be invented without identification.
  5. Yes; counsel may certify support without any factual basis.

Legal references

  • 2019 Amendments to Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 7 Sections 4-6: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html

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