Civil Procedure

Civil Procedure in the United States

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

United States Constitution

According to theEncyclopedia of the American Constitution, Article I of the Constitution empowers Congress to “constitute” lower federal courts and thus, by conventional assumption, to regulate practice and procedure in the cases heard in those courts. The lower federal courts were first created in 1789.

Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in the U.S. Code

The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure appear in the Appendix to Title 28 of the United State Code.

A Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

This section examines the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure subject in its related phase of trial. In some cases, other key elements related to trials, such as personal injury, business, and criminal litigation, are also addressed.

U.S. Civil Procedure Goes Global Explained

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  • Trial

Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts: Main Elements

The coverage of Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts includes the following main elements:

Horizontal Federalism

Find out an overview of this topic, in relation to Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts, in the legal Ecyclopedia.

Personal Jurisdiction

There is information on this basic subject in the legal Ecyclopedia.

Federal Court Subject Matter Jurisdiction

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Federal Question Jurisdiction

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Diversity Jurisdiction

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Abuses of Discovery

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  • Civil Procedure
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Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts: Main Elements

The coverage of Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts includes the following main elements:

Federal or State Law

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Where to Sue or Defend

There is information on this basic subject in the legal Ecyclopedia.

Sovereign Immunity

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Conflict of Laws

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Forum Non Conveniens

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Pretrial Procedure

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  • Civil Procedure
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Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts: Main Elements

The coverage of Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts includes the following main elements:

The Complaint and Service of Process

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The Defendant’s Response to the Complaint

There is information on this basic subject in the legal Ecyclopedia.

Class Actions

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Discovery

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Major Forms of Discovery

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Exceptions to Discovery

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  • Civil Procedure
  • Federal Courts

Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts: Main Elements

The coverage of Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts includes the following main elements:

Summary Judgment

Find out an overview of this topic, in relation to Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts, in the legal Ecyclopedia.

The Trial

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After the Trial

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Appeals in the Federal System

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Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments

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U.S. Civil Procedure Goes Global

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Civil Procedure

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Further Reading

  • Applying Daubert: how well do judges understand science and scientific method?, Dobbin, Shirley A., Gatowski, Sophia I., Richardson, James T., Ginsburg, Gerald P., Merlino, Mara L., and Dahir, Veronica, 85: 244-247 (Mar.-Apr. '02, AJS Judicature)
  • Applying Rule 68 (letter), Author, No, 76: 170 (Dec.-Jan. '93, AJS Judicature)
  • Are court-appointed experts the solution to the problems of expert testimony?, Champagne, Anthony, Easterling, Danny, Shuman, Daniel W., Tomkins, Alan J., and Whitaker, Elizabeth, 84: 178-183 (Jan.-Feb. '01, AJS Judicature)
  • Arizona Implements New Rules of Civil Procedure, Author, No, 76: 266 (Feb.-Mar. '93, AJS Judicature)
  • Author's Response (letter), Brakel, Samuel Jan, 70: 260, 312 (Feb.-Mar. '87, AJS Judicature)
  • The Balancing Act of Court Confidentiality Agreements (editorial), Editorial, AJS, 76: 280, 325 (Apr.-May '93, AJS Judicature)
  • The Bankruptcy Courts – Caught in Limbo? (focus), Krasno, Miriam R., 67: 307-309 (Dec.-Jan. '84, AJS Judicature)
  • Bankruptcy: A Solution in Search of a Problem, DeMascio, Robert E., 67: 354-359 (Feb. '84, AJS Judicature)
  • Can Court-Related Alternatives Improve Our Dispute Resolution System? (query), Rosenberg, Maurice, 69: 254-255 (Feb.-Mar. '86, AJS Judicature)
  • Can States Adapt the Federal Rules of Evidence for Small Case Litigation? (query), Ryerson, Paul S., 67: 421-423, 464-465 (Apr. '84, AJS Judicature)
  • The Case for Special Juries in Toxic Tort Litigation, Drazan, Dan, 72: 292-298 (Feb.-Mar. '89, AJS Judicature)
  • Colorado streamlines civil procedure for business cases, Moss, Edward C., 95: 94 (sept-oct '11, AJS Judicature)
  • The complexity of modern American civil litigationL Curse or cure? (viewpoint), Burbank, Stephen B., 91: 163-167, 209-210 (Jan-Feb '08, AJS Judicature)
  • Confidential Settlements and Sealed Court Records: Necessary Safeguards or Unwarranted Secrecy? (panel discussion), Discussion, Panel, 78: 304-311 (May-Jun. '95, AJS Judicature)
  • Confidentiality and the Courts: Preserving Judicial Discretion, Conlon, Suzanne B., 76: 304-307, 313 (Apr.-May '93, AJS Judicature)
  • Confidentiality and the Courts: Protecting the Right to Privacy, Burkholder, Evan A., 76: 311-313 (Apr.-May '93, AJS Judicature)
  • Confidentiality and the Courts: Secrecy's Threat To Public Safety, Reed, Charles J., 76: 308-310 (Apr.-May '93, AJS Judicature)
  • Congress Accepts Supreme Court's Invitation to Codify Supplemental Jurisdiction, Mengler, Thomas M., Burbank, Stephen B., and Rowe, Thomas D., Jr., 74: 213-216 (Dec.-Jan. '91, AJS Judicature)
  • Corporations as Citizens of Every State Where They Do Business: A Needed Change in Diversity Jurisdiction, Joiner, Charles W., 70: 291-297 (Feb.-Mar. '87, AJS Judicature)
  • Could Settlement Masters Help Reduce the Cost of Litigation and the Workload of Federal Courts? (query), Cooley, John W., 68: 59-60, 88-89 (Aug.-Sep. '84, AJS Judicature)
  • Daubert And The Need For Judicial Scientific Literacy, Miller, Paul S., Rein, Bert W., and Bailey, Edwin O., 77: 254-260 (Mar.-Apr. '94, AJS Judicature)
  • Deferral registries update (letter), Schuck, Peter H., 77: 184 (Jan.-Feb. '94, AJS Judicature)
  • Do arbitrators know something that judges don't? Ruminations on arbitral and judicial case management, McArthur, John Burritt, 94: 107-118 (Nov-Dec '10, AJS Judicature)
  • Do Mass Torts Belong in the Courtroom? (query), Feinberg, Kenneth R., 74: 237, 277 (Feb.-Mar. '91, AJS Judicature)
  • Early Assessment Program Reduces Disposition Time, Author, No, 78: 158 (Nov.-Dec. '94, AJS Judicature)
  • Early Neutral Evaluation: An Experimental Effort to Expedit
    e Dispute Resolution, Brazil, Wayne D., Kahn, Michael A., Newman, Jeffrey P., and Gold, Judith Z., 69: 279-285 (Feb.-Mar. '86, AJS Judicature)
  • Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Pre-Argument Conference Program, Martin, John H., 69: 312-313 (Feb.-Mar. '86, AJS Judicature)
  • The Emergence of the Judge as a Mediator in Civil Cases, Galanter, Marc, 69: 256-262 (Feb.-Mar. '86, AJS Judicature)
  • Ending the Bankruptcy Jurisdiction Dilemma – An Article III Bankruptcy Court Approach, Norton, William L., Jr. and Lieb, Richard, 67: 346-353 (Feb. '84, AJS Judicature)
  • Everything A Lawyer Needs To Know About The Conduct Of Civil Trials, Wenke, Robert A., 60: 346-347 (Feb. '77, AJS Judicature)
  • The Federal Magistrate System – Under New Scrutiny (focus), Krasno, Miriam R., 67: 256-257 (Nov. '83, AJS Judicature)
  • Fee-Shifting Offers of Judgment – An Approach to Reducing the Cost of Litigation, Schwarzer, William W., 76: 147-153 (Oct.-Nov. '92, AJS Judicature)
  • Fireworks on the 50th Anniversary of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Subrin, Stephen N., 73: 4-9, 47 (Jun.-Jul. '89, AJS Judicature)
  • The First Pretrial Conferences (retrospect), Winters, Glenn R., 60: 45 (Jun.-Jul. '76, AJS Judicature)
  • The fragmentation of the federal rules, Friedman, Barry and Chemerinsky, Erwin, 79: 67-73 (Sept.-Oct. '95, AJS Judicature)
  • FRCP Amendments Update (letter), Marcus, Richard L., 67: 4 (Jun.-Jul. '83, AJS Judicature)
  • FRCP Correction and Update (letter), Marcus, Richard L., 67: 109 (Sep. '83, AJS Judicature)
  • The High Cost of Justice (letter), Henican, C. Ellis, 65: 125 (Sep. '81, AJS Judicature)
  • The Impact of Federal Rule 11 on Lawyers and Judges in the Northern District of California, Nelken, Melissa L., 74: 147-152 (Oct.-Nov. '90, AJS Judicature)
  • Improving the summary jury trial, Metzloff, Thomas B., 77: 9-12 (Jul.-Aug. '93, AJS Judicature)
  • Increasing juror participation in trials through note taking and question asking, Heuer, Larry and Penrod, Steven, 79: 256-262 (Mar.-Apr. '96, AJS Judicature)
  • Interstate Certification of Questions of Law: A Valuable Process in Need of Reform, Robbins, Ira P., 76: 125-132 (Oct.-Nov. '92, AJS Judicature)
  • Judge Schwarzer's Response (letter), Schwarzer, William W., 76: 170, 213 (Dec.-Jan. '93, AJS Judicature)
  • The Judge's Role in Pretrial Case Processing: Assessing the Need for Change, Kritzer, Herbert M., 66: 28-38 (Jun.-Jul. '82, AJS Judicature)
  • Judicial Involvement in Settlement: How Judges and Lawyers View It, Rude, Dale E. and Wall, James A., Jr., 72: 175-178 (Oct.-Nov. '88, AJS Judicature)
  • Justice should emphasize people, not paper (viewpoint), Denlow, Morton, 83: 50-51, 88, 90 (Sept.-Oct. '99, AJS Judicature)
  • Keeping the gate: the evolving role of the judiciary in admitting scientific evidence, Walsh, Joseph T., 83: 140-143 (Nov.-Dec. '99, AJS Judicature)
  • The Liability of Junk and the Junk of Liability: Evidentiary Misdeeds in the Courts (review essay), Sperlich, Peter W., 75: 273-275, 281 (Feb.-Mar. '92, AJS Judicature)
  • A love sonnet (letter), Cummins, Robert, 91: 271 (May-Jun '08, AJS Judicature)
  • Mass Tort Civil Litigation: The Impact of Procedural Changes on Jury Decisions, Bordens, Kenneth S. and Horowitz, Irwin A., 73: 22-27 (Jun.-Jul. '89, AJS Judicature)
  • Misguided judicial reform (editorial), Editorial, AJS, 81: 4 (July-Aug. '97, AJS Judicature)
  • Mr. Cooley Responds (letter), Cooley, John W., 68: 261, 304 (Feb.-Mar. '85, AJS Judicature)
  • The need for uniform discovery time limits (viewpoint), McArthur, John, 80: 251-253, 296 (May-June '97, AJS Judicature)
  • New lesson plan on the jury system (brief), Richert, David, 95: 249 (Mar-Apr '11, AJS Judicature)
  • The New Order in Judicial Rulemaking, Carrington, Paul D., 75: 161-166 (Oct-Nov '91, AJS Judicature)
  • New York Tries Commercial Cases Separately, Author, No, 76: 266 (Feb.-Mar. '93, AJS Judicature)
  • Ninth Circuit Appellate Commissioner Assists Judges, Frank, Lauren, 78: 321 (May-Jun. '95, AJS Judicature)
  • One size does not fit all (letter), Kelley, Stephen M., 81: 50, 89 (Sept.-Oct. '97, AJS Judicature)
  • Oregon uses volunteer pro tem judges for some civil cases, Farr, Mary Ellen, Page, 94: 311 (may-june '11, AJS Judicature)
  • Pay The Sick First (letter), Shubert, Gustave H., 76: 170 (Dec.-Jan. '93, AJS Judicature)
  • Pilot Program Seeks to Reduce Civil Case Delay In California (focus), Weisberg, Lynn, 71: 288-289 (Feb.-Mar. '88, AJS Judicature)
  • Pretrial Conferences (letter), Multer, Abraham J., 60: 110 (Oct. '76, AJS Judicature)
  • Prison Reform Litigation (letter), Koren, Edward I., 70: 260 (Feb.-Mar. '87, AJS Judicature)
  • Reducing Court Costs and Delay: The Potential Impact of the Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Marcus, Richard L., 66: 363-370 (Mar. '83, AJS Judicature)
  • Rethinking the rules of evidentiary admissibility in non-jury trials, Sheldon, John and Murray, Peter, 86: 227-231 (Mar.-Apr. '03, AJS Judicature)
  • Rethinking the rules of evidentiary admissibility in non-jury trials: another view (viewpoint), Hendrix, Danna and Slayton, Dan, 87: 51-53, 88 (Sept.-Oct. '03, AJS Judicature)
  • Rule 11: Moving Beyond the Cosmic Anecdote (focus), Kritzer, Herbert M., Marshall, Lawrence, and Zemans, Frances Kahn, 75: 269-272 (Feb.-Mar. '92, AJS Judicature)
  • The Self-Executing Pretrial Conference: An Exceptional Tool for Handling Small Lawsuits (focus), Anderson, Douglas E., 71: 55 (Jun.-Jul. '87, AJS Judicature)
  • Should Judges Impose Sanctions for False Pleadings? (query), Curry, Richard L., 67: 57, 99-100 (Aug. '83, AJS Judicature)
  • Slaying the Monsters of Cost and Delay: Would Disclosure Be More Effective Than Discovery? (query), Schwarzer, William W., 74: 178-183 (Dec.-Jan. '91, AJS Judicature)
  • The smaller the jury, the greater the unpredictability, Saks, Michael J., 79: 263-265 (Mar.-Apr. '96, AJS Judicature)
  • Speeding Up Civil Justice, Litan, Robert E., 73: 162-167 (Oct.-Nov. '89, AJS Judicature)
  • A successful binding summary jury trial, Feagley, Michael R. and Rogers, Walter M., 79: 181-184 (Jan.-Feb. '96, AJS Judicature)
  • The Summary Jury Trial – An Alternative Method of Resolving Disputes, Lambros, Thomas D., 69: 286-290 (Feb.-Mar. '86, AJS Judicature)
  • The Summary Jury Trial: An Effective Aid To Settlement, Lambros, Thomas D., 77: 6-8, 12 (Jul.-Aug. '93, AJS Judicature)
  • Telephone Hearings in Civil Trial Courts: What Do Attorneys Think?, Hanson, Roger A., Olson, Lynae K.E., Shuart, Kathy L., and Thornton, Marlene, 66: 408-419 (Apr. '83, AJS Judicature)
  • Training Institutional Masters (letter), Hay, Herbert Darrell, 68: 260-261 (Feb.-Mar. '85, AJS Judicature)
  • Unsettling Issues About Settling Civil Litigation: Examining Doomsday Machines, Quick Looks and Other Modest Proposals, Bedlin, Howard and Nejelski, Paul, 68: 9-29 (Jun.-Jul. '84, AJS Judicature)
  • Unwarranted distrust of federal judges (viewpoint), Burbank, Stephen B., 81: 7, 41 (July-Aug. '97, AJS Judicature)
  • The Use And Misuse Of Expert Evidence In The Courts (panel discussion), Discussion, Panel, 77: 68-76 (Sep.-Oct. '93, AJS Judicature)
  • The Use of Court-Appointed Experts in Federal Courts, Cecil, Joe S. and Willging, Thomas E., 78: 41-46 (Jul.-Aug. '94, AJS Judicature)
  • What Can the American Adversary System Learn from an Inquisitorial System of Justice? (query), Strier, Franklin, 76: 109-111, 161-162 (Oct.-Nov. '92, AJS Judicature)
  • What Should Be Done When Prisoners Want To Take The State To Court?, Hanson, Roger A., 70: 223-227 (Dec.-Jan. '87, AJS Judicature)
  • Who, If Not Judges? (letter), Baker, Dennis M., 67: 160 (Oct. &#39
    ;83, AJS Judicature)
  • The Worst Should Go First: Deferral Registries in Asbestos Litigation, Schuck, Peter H., 75: 318-328 (Apr.-May '92, AJS Judicature)

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