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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Official text in pdf format, from the administrative office of the Federal court system) Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Latest Edition (www.federalrulesofcivilprocedure.org) 2016-2017 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Effective on December 1, 2016)
[46] The Commission eventually proposed rules revisions to the state Supreme Court in 2012, but the Court responded with a request that the State Bar form a second Commission to further evaluate the rules. [47] That second Commission convened in 2014, with a goal of submitting new rules to the Supreme Court by March 2017. [47]
Early federal and state civil procedure in the United States was rather ad hoc and was based on traditional common law procedure but with much local variety. There were varying rules that governed different types of civil cases such as "actions" at law or "suits" in equity or in admiralty; these differences grew from the history of "law" and "equity" as separate court systems in English law.
The fourth and latest edition was published in 2000 by Edward W. Jessen, who served as Reporter from 1989 to 2014. The fifth edition will be written by Lawrence W. Striley, the current reporter of decisions since 2014, and will be published by LexisNexis under contract with the Supreme Court. [5]
The Supreme Court uses its own unique citation style in its opinions, even though most of the justices and their law clerks obtained their legal education at law schools that use The Bluebook. [3] Furthermore, many state courts have their own citation rules that take precedence over the guide for documents filed with those courts.
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