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Ch 1, p.22 CIVIL PROCEDURE December 2010
b. Lack of jurisdiction over the person.
c. Insufficiency of the original notice or its service.
d. To recast or strike.
e. For more specific statement.
f. Failure to state a claim upon which any relief may be granted.
1.421(2) Improper venue under rule 1.808 must be raised by pre-answer motion filed prior to or
in a single motion under rule 1.421(3).
1.421(3) If the grounds therefor exist at the time a pre-answer motion is made, motions under
rule 1.421(1)(b) through 1.421(1)(f) shall be contained in a single motion and only one such motion
assailing the same pleading shall be permitted, unless the pleading is amended thereafter.
1.421(4) If a pre-answer motion does not contain any matter specified in rule 1.421(1) or 1.421(2)
that matter shall be deemed waived, except lack of jurisdiction of the subject matter or failure to state
a claim upon which relief may be granted.
1.421(5) Sufficiency of any defense may be raised by a motion to strike it, filed before pleading
to it.
1.421(6) Motions under this rule must specify how the pleading they attack is claimed to be
insufficient.
[Report October 31, 1997, effective January 24, 1998; November 9, 2001, effective February 15, 2002;
September 16, 2004, effective December 1, 2004]
Rule 1.422 Protected information. It is the responsibility of counsel and the parties to ensure that
protected information is omitted or redacted from documents or exhibits filed with the court. The
clerk of court will not review filings to determine whether the required omissions or redactions have
been made.
1.422(1) Omission or redaction required. In all civil proceedings and special actions a party shall
omit or redact protected information from documents and exhibits filed with the court unless the
information is material to the proceedings or disclosure is otherwise required by law.
a. “Protected information” includes the following:
(1) Social security numbers.
(2) Financial account numbers.
(3) Personal identification numbers.
(4) Other unique identifiers.
b. If a social security number must be included in a document only the last four digits of that
number should be used. If financial account numbers must be included only incomplete numbers
should be recited in the document.
c. Parties are not required to omit or redact protected information from materials or cases deemed
confidential by any statute or rule of the supreme court; however, omission or redaction is required for
materials that are initially confidential but which later become public, such as records in dissolution
proceedings.
1.422(2) Omission or redaction allowed. A party may omit or redact any of the following
information from documents and exhibits filed with the court unless the information is material to
the proceedings or disclosure is otherwise required by law:
a. Other personal identifying numbers, such as driver’s license numbers.
b. Information concerning medical treatment or diagnosis.
c. Employment history.
d. Personal financial information.
e. Proprietary or trade secret information.
f. Information concerning a person’s cooperation with the government.
g. Information concerning crime victims.
h. Sensitive security information.
i. Home addresses.
j. Dates of birth.
k. Names of minor children.
[Report May 31, 2006, effective September 1, 2006; August 28, 2006, effective November 1, 2006]
Rule 1.423 Limited representation pleadings and papers.
1.423(1) Disclosure of limited representation. Every pleading or paper filed by a pro se party that
was prepared with the drafting assistance of an attorney who contracted with the client to limit the