1. Civil procedure. A party’s request that the court delete insufficient defenses or immaterial, redundant, impertinent, or scandalous statements from an opponent’s pleading. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(f). [Cases: Federal Civil Procedure 1144; Pleading 351, 361. C.J.S. Pleading §§ 624–625.]
2. Evidence. A request that inadmissible evidence be deleted from the record and that the jury be instructed to disregard it. [Cases: Federal Civil Procedure 2018; Trial 88. C.J.S. Trial §§ 232, 234, 237–239.]
