Requests for Physical and Mental Examinations

This compact chapter treats Rule 35 physical and mental examinations as both procedural and ethical. It walks students through the controversy and good-cause requirements; the number of examinations permitted; who may attend; place selection; document drafting; examiner selection (often hotly contested); preparation, response, and the report; and the waiver-and-deposition consequences of having asserted physical or mental condition as part of a claim or defense. Although shorter than other discovery chapters, it pairs well as a self-contained unit in a pretrial litigation or evidence-and-discovery course where students need to understand the strategic stakes of putting condition at issue.