As a Wisconsin attorney I can tell you that sending requests to admit along with the complaint is a strategy used sometimes, but not often. Usually, as you stated, they are exchanged privately along with interrogatories. I read them as well, and like you I came away thinking Sasson is completely full of it, and this is coming from a guy who stopped defending Braun a long time ago. The requests to admit have little or nothing to do with the allegations contained in the complaint, which of course makes them irrelevant and pointless. For the non-lawyers out there it would be akin to me filing a lawsuit over a car accident and then asking 40 admissions involving cheating on your wife. I wonder what law school this guy goes to, hopefully he is a 1L and isnt close to practicing real law yet, because that was a pretty pathetic and preposterous attempt at legal work.