FEDERAL RULES - United States Courts

FEDERAL RULES

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FEDERAL RULES

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THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH CONGRESS JERROLD NADLER, New York, Chairman

ZOE LOFGREN, California SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas STEVE COHEN, Tennessee HENRY C. ``HANK'' JOHNSON, JR., Georgia THEODORE E. DEUTCH, Florida KAREN BASS, California HAKEEM JEFFRIES, New York DAVID N. CICILLINE, Rhode Island ERIC SWALWELL, California TED LIEU, California JAMIE RASKIN, Maryland PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington VAL DEMINGS, Florida J. LUIS CORREA, California MARY GAY SCANLON, Pennsylvania, Vice-Chair SYLVIA GARCIA, Texas JOSEPH NEGUSE, Colorado LUCY MCBATH, Georgia GREG STANTON, Arizona MADELEINE DEAN, Pennsylvania DEBBIE MUCARSEL-POWELL, Florida VERONICA ESCOBAR, Texas

JIM JORDAN, Ohio, Ranking Member F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., Wisconsin STEVE CHABOT, Ohio LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas DOUG COLLINS, Georgia KEN BUCK, Colorado MARTHA ROBY, Alabama MATT GAETZ, Florida MIKE JOHNSON, Louisiana ANDY BIGGS, Arizona TOM MCCLINTOCK, California DEBBIE LESKO, Arizona GUY RESCHENTHALER, Pennsylvania BEN CLINE, Virginia KELLY ARMSTRONG, North Dakota W. GREGORY STEUBE, Florida TOM TIFFANY, Wisconsin

PERRY APELBAUM, Majority Staff Director & Chief Counsel CHRIS HIXON, Minority Staff Director

(II)

FOREWORD

This document contains the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure together with forms, as amended to December 1, 2020. The rules have been promulgated and amended by the United States Supreme Court pursuant to law, and further amended by Acts of Congress. This document has been prepared by the Committee in response to the need for an official up-to-date document containing the latest amendments to the rules.

For the convenience of the user, where a rule has been amended a reference to the date the amendment was promulgated and the date the amendment became effective follows the text of the rule.

The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure and the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Judicial Conference of the United States, prepared notes explaining the purpose and intent of the amendments to the rules. The Committee Notes may be found in the Appendix to Title 28, United States Code, following the particular rule to which they relate.

DECEMBER 1, 2020.

Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary. (III)

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