Disclosure Statement

(a) Who Must A File; nongovernmental corporate party or a Contents. (1) Responses and Objections. Unless otherwise provided in these rules or by order of the court, a response or an objection to a written motion must be filed within 14 days after service of the motion. (2) Replies. A reply to a response or an objection may be filed within 7 days after service of the response or objection. (b) Motions Under RCFC 12(b), 12(c), 52.1, and 56. (1) Responses. A response to any of these motions must be filed within 28 days after service of the motion. 15 RCFC 7, 7.1 and 7.2 (2) Replies. A reply to a response may be filed within 14 days after service of the response. (c) Cross-Motions. (1) Initial Motion. A cross-motion may be filed within for the responses in RCFC 7.2(a) and (b). time allowed (2) Response and Reply. A party will have the same amount of time to respond and reply to a cross-motion as to an original motion. (d) Motions Filed by Leave of Court. The time for filing a response to a motion filed by leave of court on motion by a party will run from the date of filing and not from the date of service. (As revised and reissued May 1, 2002; as amended Sept. 15, 2003, June 20, 2006, Nov. 3, 2008.) Rules Committee Notes 2002 Revision and 2003 Amendment RCFC 7.2 has no FRCP counterpart. The rule formerly appeared in these rules as RCFC 83.2 and, following the court’s May 1, 2002, revision of its rules, as RCFC 7.1. The first renumbering of the rule (from RCFC 83.2 to RCFC 7.1) was intended to reflect its more logical placement in the organizational structure of the court’s rules; the second renumbering (from RCFC 7.1 to RCFC 7.2) accommodates the court’s adoption of FRCP 7.1 effective December 1, 2002, and preserves the consistency in numbering systems between the court’s rules and the FRCP. 2006 Amendment A cross-reference in subdivision (c) was revised to accord with the addition of RCFC 52.1. 2008 Amendment In addition, The language of RCFC 7.2 has been amended to conform to the general restyling of the FRCP. improve organizational to structure, the subdivision dealing with the contents of cross-motions, formerly included in these rules as RCFC 7.2(e), has been moved to RCFC 5.4(a).