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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

This 4-by-6 inch guide compiles the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as amended through December 1, 2010. Includes approved forms.

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Contents

TITLE I. SCOPE OF RULES; FORM OF ACTION

Rule 1. Scope and Purpose
Rule 2. One Form of Action

TITLE II. COMMENCING AN ACTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS, PLEADINGS, MOTIONS, AND ORDERS

Rule 3. Commencing an Action
Rule 4. Summons
Rule 4.1. Serving Other Process
Rule 5. Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers
Rule 5.1. Constitutional Challenge to a Statute--Notice, Certification, and Intervention
Rule 5.2. Privacy Protection For Filings Made with the Court
Rule 6. Computing and Extending Time; Time for Motion Papers

TITLE III. PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS

Rule 7. Pleadings Allowed; Form of Motions and Other Papers
Rule 7.1. Disclosure Statement
Rule 8. General Rules of Pleading
Rule 9. Pleading Special Matters
Rule 10. Form of Pleadings
Rule 11. Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions
Rule 12. Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing
Rule 13. Counterclaim and Crossclaim
Rule 14. Third-Party Practice
Rule 15. Amended and Supplemental Pleadings
Rule 16. Pretrial Conferences; Scheduling; Management

TITLE IV. PARTIES

Rule 17. Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity; Public Officers
Rule 18. Joinder of Claims
Rule 19. Required Joinder of Parties
Rule 20. Permissive Joinder of Parties
Rule 21. Misjoinder and Nonjoinder of Parties
Rule 22. Interpleader
Rule 23. Class Actions
Rule 23.1. Derivative Actions
Rule 23.2. Actions Relating to Unincorporated Associations
Rule 24. Intervention
Rule 25. Substitution of Parties

TITLE V. DISCLOSURES AND DISCOVERY

Rule 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery
Rule 27. Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony
Rule 28. Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken
Rule 29. Stipulations About Discovery Procedure
Rule 30. Depositions by Oral Examination
Rule 31. Depositions by Written Questions
Rule 32. Using Depositions in Court Proceedings
Rule 33. Interrogatories to Parties
Rule 34. Producing Documents, Electronically Stored Information, and Tangible Things, or Entering onto Land, for Inspection and Other Purposes
Rule 35. Physical and Mental Examinations
Rule 36. Requests for Admission
Rule 37. Failure to Make Disclosures or to Cooperate in Discovery; Sanctions

TITLE VI. TRIALS

Rule 38. Right to a Jury Trial; Demand
Rule 39. Trial by Jury or by the Court
Rule 40. Scheduling Cases for Trial
Rule 41. Dismissal of Actions
Rule 42. Consolidation; Separate Trials
Rule 43. Taking Testimony
Rule 44. Proving an Official Record
Rule 44.1. Determining Foreign Law
Rule 45. Subpoena
Rule 46. Objecting to a Ruling or Order
Rule 47. Selecting Jurors
Rule 48. Number of Jurors; Verdict; Polling
Rule 49. Special Verdict; General Verdict and Questions
Rule 50. Judgment as a Matter of Law in a Jury Trial; Related Motion for a New Trial; Conditional Ruling
Rule 51. Instructions to the Jury; Objections; Preserving a Claim of Error
Rule 52. Findings and Conclusions by the Court; Judgment on Partial Findings
Rule 53. Masters

TITLE VII. JUDGMENT

Rule 54. Judgment; Costs
Rule 55. Default; Default Judgment
Rule 56. Summary Judgment
Rule 57. Declaratory Judgment
Rule 58. Entering Judgment
Rule 59. New Trial; Altering or Amending a Judgment
Rule 60. Relief from a Judgment or Order
Rule 61. Harmless Error
Rule 62. Stay of Proceedings to Enforce a Judgment
Rule 62.1. Indicative Ruling on a Motion for Relief that is Barred by a Pending Appeal
Rule 63. Judge?s Inability to Proceed

TITLE VIII. PROVISIONAL AND FINAL REMEDIES

Rule 64. Seizing a Person or Property
Rule 65. Injunctions and Restraining Orders
Rule 65.1. Proceedings Against a Surety
Rule 66. Receivers
Rule 67. Deposit into Court
Rule 68. Offer of Judgment
Rule 69. Execution
Rule 70. Enforcing a Judgment for a Specific Act
Rule 71. Enforcing Relief For or Against a Nonparty

TITLE IX. SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS

Rule 71.1. Condemning Real or Personal Property
Rule 72. Magistrate Judges: Pretrial Order
Rule 73. Magistrate Judges: Trial by Consent; Appeal
Rule 74. [Abrogated.]
Rule 75. [Abrogated.]
Rule 76. [Abrogated.]

TITLE X. DISTRICT COURTS AND CLERKS: CONDUCTING BUSINESS; ISSUING ORDERS

Rule 77. Conducting Business; Clerk's Authority; Notice of an Order or Judgment
Rule 78. Hearing Motions; Submission on Briefs
Rule 79. Records Kept by the Clerk
Rule 80. Stenographic Transcript as Evidence

TITLE XI. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Rule 81. Applicability of the Rules in General; Removed Actions
Rule 82. Jurisdiction and Venue Unaffected
Rule 83. Rules by District Courts; Judge's Directives
Rule 84. Forms
Rule 85. Title
Rule 86. Effective Dates

APPENDIX OF FORMS

October 13, 2010