This Article begins by demonstrating that the proliferation of local rules indeed poses a threat to the integrity and uniformity of federal procedure. The Article next examines the general policies relating to local rulemaking. Based on that analysis, the final section presents specific proposals for rethinking rule 83 to permit informed local control over truly local matters, while placing beyond the reach of district courts those matters that are national in scope
Local rules of court are supposed to be consistent with but not duplicative of federal rules. This A...
State courts matter. Not only do state courts handle more than sixty times the number of civil cases...
In this article we present a new survey of the civil procedures of the fifty states and the District...
This Article begins by demonstrating that the proliferation of local rules indeed poses a threat to ...
In 1938, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were adopted. Their adoption represented a triumph of ...
In conformity with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, each district court may specify its own spe...
After more than two decades of vigorous debate, the original Federal Rules of Civil Procedure became...
Federal district courts have viewed the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 as a mandate to adopt proce...
(Excerpt) This Article examines and analyzes (1) the wisdom of addressing pervasive problems in the ...
Though they originated as an insubstantial entity, United States Federal Courts have become a virtua...
Local rules have been unfairly cast as procedural villains. Their qualifications for the role are pu...
This Article is a reflection on personal experience as well as an account of what has happened to th...
Federal civil procedure is now byzantine. Lawyers and parties face, and federal judges apply, a bewi...
We have criticized the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure since the 1980s and the pr...
Local rules have been unfairly cast as procedural villains. Their qualifications for the role are p...
Local rules of court are supposed to be consistent with but not duplicative of federal rules. This A...
State courts matter. Not only do state courts handle more than sixty times the number of civil cases...
In this article we present a new survey of the civil procedures of the fifty states and the District...
This Article begins by demonstrating that the proliferation of local rules indeed poses a threat to ...
In 1938, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were adopted. Their adoption represented a triumph of ...
In conformity with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, each district court may specify its own spe...
After more than two decades of vigorous debate, the original Federal Rules of Civil Procedure became...
Federal district courts have viewed the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 as a mandate to adopt proce...
(Excerpt) This Article examines and analyzes (1) the wisdom of addressing pervasive problems in the ...
Though they originated as an insubstantial entity, United States Federal Courts have become a virtua...
Local rules have been unfairly cast as procedural villains. Their qualifications for the role are pu...
This Article is a reflection on personal experience as well as an account of what has happened to th...
Federal civil procedure is now byzantine. Lawyers and parties face, and federal judges apply, a bewi...
We have criticized the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure since the 1980s and the pr...
Local rules have been unfairly cast as procedural villains. Their qualifications for the role are p...
Local rules of court are supposed to be consistent with but not duplicative of federal rules. This A...
State courts matter. Not only do state courts handle more than sixty times the number of civil cases...
In this article we present a new survey of the civil procedures of the fifty states and the District...