FOR THE TRIAL DIVISION OF THE
CHUUK SUPREME COURT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. SCOPE OF RULES ) ONE FORM OF ACTION
II.
COMMENCEMENT OF ACTION: SERVICE OF PROCESS PLEADINGS, MOTIONS AND ORDERS
Rule 4(a) Summons - Issuance
Rule 4(b) Same. Form
Rule 4(c) By Whom Served
Rule 4(d) Summons: Personal Service
Rule 4(e) Territorial Limits of Effective Service
Rule 4(f) Return
Rule 4(g) Amendment
Rule 5(a) Service: When Required
Rule 5(b) Service Same: How Made
Rule 5(c) Service Same: Numerous Defendants
Rule 5(d) Filing
Rule 5(e) Filing with the Court Defined
Rule 6(a) Computation
Rule 6(b) Enlargement
Rule 6(d) For Motions - Affidavits
Rule 6(e) Additional Time After Service by Mail
III. PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS
Rule 7(a) Pleadings
Rule 7(b) Motions and Other Papers
Rule 7(c) Demurrers, Pleas, Etc., Abolished
Rule 8(a) Claims for Relief
Rule 8(b) Defenses; Form of Denials
Rule 8(c) Affirmative Defenses
Rule 8(d) Effect of Failure to Deny
Rule 8(e) Pleadings to be Concise and Direct Consistency
Rule 8(f) Construction of Pleadings
Rule 9(a) Capacity
Rule 9(b) Fraud, Mistake, Condition of the Mind
Rule 9(c) Conditions Precedent
Rule 9(d) Official Document or Act
Rule 9(e) Judgment
Rule 9(f) Time and Place
Rule 9(g) Special Damage
Rule 9(h) Reserved
Rule 10(a) Caption: Name of Parties
Rule 10(b) Paragraphs; Separate Statements
Rule 10(c) Adoption by Reference; Exhibits
Rule 12(a) When Presented
Rule 12(b) How Presented
Rule 12(c) Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings
Rule 12(d) Preliminary Hearings
Rule 12(e) Motion for More Definite Statement
Rule 12(f) Motion to Strike
Rule 12(g) Consolidation of Defenses in Motion
Rule 12(h) Waiver or Preservation of Certain Defenses
Rule 13(a) Compulsory Counterclaims
Rule 13(b) Permissive Counterclaims
Rule 13(c) Counterclaim Exceeding Opposing Claim
Rule 13(d) Counterclaim Against the State of Chuuk
Rule 13(e) Counterclaim Maturing or Acquired After Pleading
Rule 13(f) Omitted Counterclaim
Rule 13(g) Cross Claim Against Co-Party
Rule 13(h) Joinder of Additional Parties
Rule 13(i) Separate Trials; Separate Judgments
Rule 14(a) When Defendant May Bring in Third Party
Rule 14(b) When Plaintiff May Bring in Third Party
Rule 14(c) Reserved
Rule 15(a) Amendments
Rule 15(b) Amendments to Conform to the Evidence
Rule 15(c) Relation Back of Amendments
Rule 15(d) Supplemental Pleadings
IV. PARTIES
Rule 17(a) Real Party in Interest
Rule 17(b) Reserved
Rule 17(c) Infants or Incompetent Persons
Rule 18(a) Joinder of Claims
Rule 18(b) Joinder of Remedies; Fraudulent Conveyances
Rule 19(a) Persons to be Joined if Feasible
Rule 19(b) Determination by Court Whenever Joinder not Feasible
Rule 19(c) Pleading Reasons for Nonjoinder
Rule 19(d) Exception of Class Action
Rule 20(a) Permissive Joinder
Rule 20(b) Separate Trials
Rule 23(a) Prerequisites to a Class Action
Rule 23(b) Class Actions Maintainable
Rule 23(c) Determination by Order Whether Class Action to be Maintained;
Notice; Judgment; Actions Conducted Partially as Class
Actions
Rule 23(d) Orders in Conduct of Actions
Rule 23(e) Dismissal or Compromise
Rule 24(a) Intervention of Right
Rule 24(b) Permissive Intervention
Rule 24(c) Procedure
Rule 25(a) Death
Rule 25(b) Incompetency
Rule 25(c) Transfer of Interest
Rule 25(d) Public Officers; Death or Separation From Office
V. DEPOSITIONS AND DISCOVERY
Rule 26(a) Discovery Methods
Rule 26(b) Scope of Discovery
Rule 26(c) Protective Orders
Rule 26(d) Sequence and Timing of Discovery
Rule 26(e) Supplementation of Responses
Rule 26(f) Discovery Conference
Rule 26(g) Signing of Discovery Requests, Responses, and Objections
Rule 27(a) Before Action
Rule 27(b) Pending Appeal
Rule 27(c) Perpetuation by Action
Rule 28(a) Within the Federated States of Micronesia
Rule 28(b) In Foreign Countries
Rule 28(c) Disqualification for Interest
Rule 30(a) When Depositions May Be Taken
Rule 30(b) Notice of Examination; General Requirements; Special Notice;
Non-Stenographic Recording; Production of Documents and
Things; Deposition of Organization
Rule 30(c) Examination and Cross Examination Record of Examination; Oath;
Objections
Rule 30(d) Motion to Terminate or Limit Examination
Rule 30(e) Submission to Witness; Changes; Signing
Rule 30(f) Certification and filing by Officer; Exhibits; Copies; Notice of
Filing
Rule 30(g) Failure to Attend or to Serve Subpoena; Expenses
Rule 31(a) Serving Questions; Notice
Rule 31(b) Officer to Take Responses and Prepare Record
Rule 31(c) Notice of Filing
Rule 32(a) Use of Depositions
Rule 32(b) Objections to Admissibility
Rule 32(c) Reserved
Rule 32(d) Effect of Errors and Irregularities in Depositions
Rule 33(a) Availability; Procedures for Use
Rule 33(b) Scope; Use at Trial
Rule 33(c) Option to Produce Business Records
Rule 34(a) Scope
Rule 34(b) Procedure
Rule 34(c) Persons not Parties
Rule 35(a) Order for Examination
Rule 35(b) Report of Examining Physician or Medical Officer
Rule 36(a) Request for Admission
Rule 36(b) Effect of Admission
Rule 37(a) Motion for Order Compelling Discovery
Rule 37(b) Failure to Comply with Order
Rule 37(c) Expenses on Failure to Admit
Rule 37(d) Failure of Party to Attend at Own Deposition or Serve Answers to
Interrogatories or Respond to Request for Inspection
Rule 37(e) Reserved
Rule 37(f) Expenses Against the State of Chuuk
Rule 37(g) Failure to Participate in the Framing of a Discovery Plan
Rule 38. Reserved
Rule
39. Reserved
Rule
40. Reserved
Rule 41(a) Voluntary Dismissal: Effect thereof
Rule 41(b) Involuntary Dismissal: Effect Thereof
Rule 41(c) Dismissal of Counterclaim, Cross-claim, or Third Party Claim
Rule 41(d) Costs of Previously-Dismissed Action
Rule 41(e) Dismissal by the Court for Failure to Prosecute
Rule 42(a) Consolidation
Rule 42(b) Separate Trials
Rule 43(a) Form
Rule 43(b) Reserved
Rule 43(c) Reserved
Rule 43(d) Affirmation in Lieu of Oath
Rule 43(e) Evidence on Motions
Rule 43(f) Interpreters
Rule 44(a) Authentication
Rule 44(b) Lack of Record
Rule 44(c) Other Proof
Rule 45(a) For Attendance of Witnesses; Form Issuance
Rule 45(b) For Production of Documentary Evidence
Rule 45(c) Service
Rule 45(d) Subpoena for Taking Depositions; Place of Examination
Rule 45(e) Subpoena for a Hearing or Trial
Rules 47- 51. Reserved
Rule 52(a) Effect
Rule 52(b) Amendment
Rule 53(a) Appointment and Compensation
Rule 53(b) Reference
Rule 53(c) Powers
Rule 53(d) Proceedings
VII. JUDGMENTS
Rule 54(a) Definition; Form
Rule 54(b) Judgment Upon Multiple Claims or Involving Multiple Parties
Rule 54(c) Demand for Judgment
Rule 54(d) Costs
Rule 55(a) Entry
Rule 55(b) Judgment
Rule 55(c) Setting Aside Default
Rule 55(d) Plaintiffs, Counterclaimants, Cross-Claimants
Rule 55(e) Judgment Against the Federated States of Micronesia
Rule 56(a) For Claimant
Rule 56(b) For Defending Party
Rule 56(c) Motion and Proceedings Thereon
Rule 56(d) Case Not Fully Adjudicated on Motion
Rule 56(e) Form of Affidavits; Further Testimony; Defense Required
Rule 56(f) When Affidavits are Unavailable
Rule 56(g) Affidavits Made in Bad Faith
Rule 59(a) Grounds
Rule 59(b) Time for Motion
Rule 59(c) Time for Serving Affidavits
Rule 59(d) On Initiative of Court
Rule 59(e) Motion to Alter or Amend a Judgment
Rule 60(a) Clerical Mistakes
Rule 60(b) Mistakes; Inadvertence; Excusable Neglect; Newly Discovered
Evidence; Fraud, Etc.
Rule 62(a) Automatic Stay; Exception - Injunctions; Receiverships, and Patent Accountings
Rule 62(b) Stay on Motion for New Trial or For Judgment
Rule 62(c) Injunction Pending Appeal
Rule 62(d) Stay Upon Appeal
Rule 62(e) Stay in Favor of the State of Chuuk or an Agency thereof
Rule 62(f) Reserved
Rule 62(g) Power of Appellate Court not Limited
Rule 62(h) Stay of Judgment as to Multiple Claims or Multiple Parties
Rule 64. Reserved
Rule 65(a) Preliminary Injunction
Rule 65(b) Temporary Restraining Order; Notice; Hearing; Duration
Rule 65(c) Security
Rule 65(d) Form and Scope of Injunction or Restraining Order
Rule 65(e) Reserved
Rule 69(a) In General
Rule 69(b) Reserved
IX. APPEALS
Rules 72- 76. Reserved.
X. COURTS AND CLERKS
Rule 77(a) Courts Always Open
Rule 77(b) Trial and Hearings; Orders in Chambers
Rule 77(c) Clerk's Office and Orders by Clerk
Rule 77(d) Notice of Orders or Judgments
Rule 79(a) Civil Docket
Rule 79(b) Civil Judgment and Orders
Rule 79(c) Indices; Calendars
Rule 79(d) Other Books and Records of the Clerk
Rule 81. Vacant
Rule 83- 84. Reserved.