FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE WITH OFFICIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE NOTES: US GOVERNMENT

This book was revised on September 9, 2018. Table of Contents DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE FOR THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS 1 13 TITLE I. SCOPE OF RULES; FORM OF ACTION 13 Rule 1. Scope and Purpose 13 Rule 2. One Form of Action 15 TITLE II. COMMENCING AN ACTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS, PLEADINGS, MOTIONS, AND ORDERS 15 Rule 3. Commencing an Action 15 Rule 4. Summons 16 Rule 4.1. Serving Other Process 36 Rule 5. Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers 36 Rule 5.1. Constitutional Challenge to a Statute—Notice, Certification, and Intervention 41 Rule 5.2. Privacy Protection For Filings Made with the Court 42 Rule 6. Computing and Extending Time; Time for Motion Papers 44 TITLE III. PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS 49 Rule 7. Pleadings Allowed; Form of Motions and Other Papers 49 Rule 7.1. Disclosure Statement 50 Rule 8. General Rules of Pleading 51 Rule 9. Pleading Special Matters 53 Rule 10. Form of Pleadings 55 Rule 11. Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions 56 Rule 12. Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing 60 Rule 13. Counterclaim and Crossclaim 65 Rule 14. Third-Party Practice 67 Rule 15. Amended and Supplemental Pleadings 70 Rule 16. Pretrial Conferences; Scheduling; Management 73 TITLE IV. PARTIES 79 Rule 17. Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity; Public Officers 79 Rule 18. Joinder of Claims 81 Rule 19. Required Joinder of Parties 82 Rule 20. Permissive Joinder of Parties 85 Rule 21. Misjoinder and Nonjoinder of Parties 86 Rule 22. Interpleader 86 Rule 23. Class Actions 87 Rule 23.1. Derivative Actions 100 Rule 23.2. Actions Relating to Unincorporated Associations 101 Rule 24. Intervention 101 Rule 25. Substitution of Parties 103 TITLE V. DISCLOSURES AND DISCOVERY 105 Rule 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery 107 Rule 27. Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony 134 Rule 28. Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken 135 Rule 29. Stipulations About Discovery Procedure 137 Rule 30. Depositions by Oral Examination 138 Rule 31. Depositions by Written Questions 145 Rule 32. Using Depositions in Court Proceedings 146 Rule 33. Interrogatories to Parties 149 Rule 34. Producing Documents, Electronically Stored Information, and Tangible Things, or Entering onto Land, for Inspection and Other Purposes 153 Rule 35. Physical and Mental Examinations 157 Rule 36. Requests for Admission 159 Rule 37. Failure to Make Disclosures or to Cooperate in Discovery; Sanctions 162 TITLE VI. TRIALS 171 Rule 38. Right to a Jury Trial; Demand 171 Rule 39. Trial by Jury or by the Court 172 Rule 40. Scheduling Cases for Trial 172 Rule 41. Dismissal of Actions 173 Rule 42. Consolidation; Separate Trials 174 Rule 43. Taking Testimony 175 Rule 44. Proving an Official Record 177 Rule 44.1. Determining Foreign Law 180 Rule 45. Subpoena 182 Rule 46. Objecting to a Ruling or Order 191 Rule 47. Selecting Jurors 191 Rule 48. Number of Jurors; Verdict; Polling 192 Rule 49. Special Verdict; General Verdict and Questions 193 Rule 50. Judgment as a Matter of Law in a Jury Trial; Related Motion for a New Trial; Conditional Ruling 194 Rule 51. Instructions to the Jury; Objections; Preserving a Claim of Error 198 TITLE VII. JUDGMENT 208 Rule 55. Default; Default Judgment 212 Rule 56. Summary Judgment 213 Rule 57. Declaratory Judgment 218 Rule 58. Entering Judgment 218 Rule 59. New Trial; Altering or Amending a Judgment 221 Rule 60. Relief from a Judgment or Order 222 Rule 61. Harmless Error 224 Rule 62. Stay of Proceedings to Enforce a Judgment 225 Rule 62.1. Indicative Ruling on a Motion for Relief That is Barred by a Pending Appeal 227 Rule 63. Judge's Inability to Proceed 227 TITLE VIII. PROVISIONAL AND FINAL REMEDIES 228 Rule 64. Seizing a Person Read more