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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
2007
(incorporating the revisions that took effect Dec. 1, 2007)
I. SCOPE OF RULES; FORM OF ACTION
II. COMMENCING AN ACTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS, PLEADINGS,
MOTIONS, AND ORDERS
III. PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS
IV. PARTIES
V. DISCLOSURES AND DISCOVERY
VI. TRIALS
VII. JUDGMENT
VIII. PROVISIONAL AND FINAL REMEDIES
IX. SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS
X. DISTRICT COURTS AND CLERKS: CONDUCTING BUSINESS;
ISSUING ORDERS
XI. GENERAL PROVISIONS
XII. APPENDIX OF FORMS
XIII. SUPPLEMENTAL RULES FOR ADMIRALTY OR MARITIME
CLAIMS AND ASSET FORFEITURE ACTIONS
I. SCOPE OF RULES--ONE FORM OF ACTION
* 1. Scope of Rules
* 2. One Form of Action
II. COMMENCEMENT OF ACTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS,
PLEADINGS, MOTIONS, AND ORDERS
* 3. Commencing an Action
* 4. Summons
* 4.1. Serving Other Process
* 5. Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers
* 5.1. Constitutional Challenge to a Statute - Notice,
Certification, and Intervention
* 5.2. Privacy Protection For Filings Made with the Court
* 6. Computing and Extending Time; Time for Motion Papers
III. PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS
* 7. Pleadings Allowed; Form of Motions and Other Papers
* 7.1. Disclosure Statement
* 8. General Rules of Pleading
* 9. Pleading Special Matters
* 10. Form of Pleadings
* 11. Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers;
Representations to the Court; Sanctions
* 12. Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented;
Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions;
Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing
* 13. Counterclaim and Crossclaim
* 14. Third-Party Practice
* 15. Amended and Supplemental Pleadings
* 16. Pretrial Conferences; Scheduling; Management
IV. PARTIES
* 17. Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity; Public Officers
* 18. Joinder of Claims
* 19. Required Joinder of Parties
* 20. Permissive Joinder of Parties
* 21. Misjoinder and Nonjoinder of Parties
* 22. Interpleader
* 23. Class Actions
* 23.1. Derivative Actions
* 23.2. Actions Relating to Unincorporated Associations
* 24. Intervention
* 25. Substitution of Parties
V. DEPOSITIONS AND DISCOVERY
* 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions
Governing Discovery
* 27. Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony
* 28. Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken
* 29. Stipulations Regarding Discovery Procedure
* 30. Deposition by Oral Examination
* 31. Depositions by Written Questions
* 32. Using Depositions in Court Proceedings
* 33. Interrogatories to Parties
* 34. Producing Documents, Electronically Stored
Information, and Tangible Things, or Entering
onto Land, for Inspection and Other Purposes
* 35. Physical and Mental Examinations
* 36. Requests for Admission
* 37. Failure to Make Disclosures or to Cooperate in Discovery;
Sanctions
VI. TRIALS
* 38. Right to a Jury Trial; Demand
* 39. Trial by Jury or by the Court
* 40. Scheduling Cases for Trial
* 41. Dismissal of Actions
* 42. Consolidation; Separate Trials
* 43. Taking Testimony
* 44. Proving an Official Record
* 44.1. Determining Foreign Law
* 45. Subpoena
* 46. Objecting to a Ruling or Order
* 47. Selection of Jurors
* 48. Number of Jurors: Verdict
* 49. Special Verdict; General Verdict and Questions
* 50. Judgment as a Matter of Law in a Jury Trial;
Related Motion for a New Trial; Conditional Ruling
* 51. Instructions to the Jury; Objections; Preserving
a Claim of Error
* 52. Findings and Conclusions by the Court; Judgment on
Partial Findings
* 53. Masters
VII. JUDGMENT
* 54. Judgments; Costs
* 55. Default; Default Judgment
* 56. Summary Judgment
* 57. Declaratory Judgments
* 58. Entry of Judgment
* 59. New Trial; Altering or Amending a Judgment
* 60. Relief from Judgment or Order
* 61. Harmless Error
* 62. Stay of Proceedings to Enforce a Judgment
* 63. Judge’s Inability to Proceed
VIII. PROVISIONAL AND FINAL REMEDIES
* 64. Seizing a Person or Property
* 65. Injunctions and Restraining Orders
* 65.1 Proceedings Against a Surety
* 66. Receivers
* 67. Deposit into Court
* 68. Offer of Judgment
* 69. Execution
* 70. Enforcing a Judgment for a Specific Act
* 71. Enforcing Relief For or Against a Nonparty
IX. SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS
* 71.1 Condemning Real or Personal Property
* 72. Magistrate Judges: Pretrial Orders
* 73. Magistrate Judges: Trial by Consent; Appeal
* 74. [Abrogated]
* 75. [Abrogated]
* 76. [Abrogated]
X. DISTRICT COURTS AND CLERKS
* 77. Conducting Business; Clerk’s Authority;
Notice of an Order or Judgment
* 78. Hearing Motions; Submission on Briefs
* 79. Records Kept by the Clerk
* 80. Stenographic Transcript as Evidence
XI. GENERAL PROVISIONS
* 81. Applicability of the Rules in General;
Removed Actions
* 82. Jurisdiction and Venue Unaffected
* 83. Rules by District Courts; Judge's Directives
* 84. Forms
* 85. Title
* 86. Effective Date
XII. APPENDIX OF FORMS (U.S. Courts site)
XIII. SUPPLEMENTAL RULES FOR CERTAIN ADMIRALTY
AND MARITIME CLAIMS
* A. Scope of Rules
* B. In Personam Actions: Attachment and Garnishment
* C. Actions in Rem: Special Provisions
* D. Possessory, Petitory, and Partition Actions
* E. Actions in Rem and Quasi in Rem: General Provisions
* F. Limitation of Liability
* G. orfeiture Actions In Rem
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