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Table of Contents
[Rules 23.1 to 26 (notes 1– 378 ) appear in this volume.]
TITLE I. SCOPE OF RULES; FORM OF ACTION
Rule
1. Scope and Purpose
2. One Form of Action
TITLE II. COMMENCING AN ACTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS, PLEADINGS,
MOTIONS, AND ORDERS
3. Commencing an Action
4. Summons
4.1. Serving Other Process
5. Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers
5.1. Constitutional Challenge to a Statute—Notice, Certification, and Intervention
5.2. Privacy Protection For Filings Made with the Court
6. Computing and Extending Time; Time for Motion Papers
TITLE III. PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS
7. Pleadings Allowed; Form of Motions and Other Papers
7.1. Disclosure Statement
8. General Rules of Pleading
9. Pleading Special Matters
10. Form of Pleadings
11. Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions
12. Defenses and Objections; When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing
13. Counterclaim and Crossclaim
14. Third-Party Practice
15. Amended and Supplemental Pleadings
16. Pretrial Conferences; Scheduling; Management
TITLE IV. PARTIES
17. Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity; Public Officers
18. Joinder of Claims
19. Required Joinder of Parties
20. Permissive Joinder of Parties
21. Misjoinder and Nonjoinder of Parties
22. Interpleader
23. Class Actions
23.1. Derivative Actions
23.2. Actions Relating to Unincorporated Associations
24. Intervention
25. Substitution of Parties
TITLE V. DISCLOSURES AND DISCOVERY
26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery
27. Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony
28. Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken
29. Stipulations About Discovery Procedure
30. Depositions by Oral Examination
31. Depositions by Written Questions
32. Using Depositions in Court Proceedings
33. Interrogatories to Parties
34. Producing Documents, Electronically Stored Information, and Tangible Things, or Entering onto Land, for Inspection and Other Purposes
35. Physical and Mental Examinations
36. Requests for Admission
37. Failure to Make Disclosures or to Cooperate in Discovery; Sanctions
TITLE VI. TRIALS
38. Right to a Jury Trial; Demand
39. Trial by Jury or by the Court
40. Scheduling Cases for Trial
41. Dismissal of Actions
42. Consolidation; Separate Trials
43. Taking Testimony
44. Proving an Official Record
44.1. Determining Foreign Law
45. Subpoena
46. Objecting to a Ruling or Order
47. Selecting Jurors
48. Number of Jurors; Verdict
49. Special Verdict; General Verdict and Questions
50. Judgment as a Matter of Law in a Jury Trial; Related Motion for a New Trial; Conditional Ruling
51. Instructions to the Jury; Objections; Preserving a Claim of Error
52. Findings and Conclusions by the Court; Judgment on Partial Findings
53. Masters
TITLE VII. JUDGMENT
54. Judgment; Costs
55. Default; Default Judgment
56. Summary Judgment
57. Declaratory Judgment
58. Entering Judgment
59. New Trial; Altering or Amending a Judgment
60. Relief From a Judgment or Order
61. Harmless Error
62. Stay of Proceedings to Enforce a Judgment
62.1 Indicative Ruling on a Motion for Relief That is Barred by a Pending Appeal
63. Judge's Inability to Proceed
TITLE VIII. PROVISIONAL AND FINAL REMEDIES
64. Seizing a Person or Property
65. Injunctions and Restraining Orders
65.1. Proceedings Against a Surety
66. Receivers
67. Deposit into Court
68. Offer of Judgment
69. Execution
70. Enforcing a Judgment for a Specific Act
71. Enforcing Relief For or Against a Nonparty
TITLE IX. SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS
71.1. Condemning Real or Personal Property
71A. [Transferred]
72. Magistrate Judges; Pretrial Order
73. Magistrate Judges; Trial by Consent; Appeal
74. [Abrogated]
75. [Abrogated]
76. [Abrogated]
TITLE X. DISTRICT COURTS AND CLERKS: CONDUCTING BUSINESS; ISSUING
ORDERS
77. Conducting Business; Clerk's Authority; Notice of an Order or Judgment
78. Hearing Motions; Submission on Briefs
79. Records Kept by the Clerk
80. Stenographic Transcript as Evidence
TITLE XI. GENERAL PROVISIONS
81. Applicability of the Rules in General; Removed Actions
82. Jurisdiction and Venue Unaffected
83. Rules by District Courts; Judge's Directives
84. Forms
85. Title
86. Effective Dates
APPENDIX OF FORMS
Form
1. Caption
2. Date, Signature, Address, E-mail Address, and Telephone Number
3. Summons
4. Summons on a Third-Party Complaint
5. Notice of a Lawsuit and Request to Waive Service of a Summons
6. Waiver of the Service of Summons
7. Statement of Jurisdiction
8. Statement of Reasons for Omitting a Party
9. Statement Noting a Party's Death
10. Complaint to Recover a Sum Certain
11. Complaint for Negligence
12. Complaint for Negligence When the Plaintiff Does Not Know Who Is Responsible
13. Complaint for Negligence Under the Federal Employers' Liability Act
14. Complaint for Damages Under the Merchant Marine Act
15. Complaint for the Conversion of Property
16. Third-Party Complaint
17. Complaint for Specific Performance of a Contract to Convey Land
18. Complaint for Patent Infringement
19. Complaint for Copyright Infringement and Unfair Competition
20. Complaint for Interpleader and Declaratory Relief
21. Complaint on a Claim for a Debt and to Set Aside a Fraudulent Conveyance Under Rule 18(b)
30. Answer Presenting Defenses Under Rule 12(b)
31. Answer to a Complaint for Money Had and Received with a Counterclaim for Interpleader
40. Motion to Dismiss Under Rule 12(b) for Lack of Jurisdiction, Improper Venue, Insufficient Service of Process, or Failure to State a Claim
41. Motion to Bring in a Third-Party Defendant
42. Motion to Intervene as a Defendant Under Rule 24
50. Request to Produce Documents and Tangible Things, or to Enter onto Land Under Rule 34
51. Request for Admissions Under Rule 36
52. Report of the Parties' Planning Meeting
60. Notice of Condemnation
61. Complaint for Condemnation
70. Judgment on a Jury Verdict
71. Judgment by the Court without a Jury
80. Notice of a Magistrate Judge's Availability
81. Consent to an Assignment to a Magistrate Judge
82. Order of Assignment to a Magistrate Judge
SUPPLEMENTAL RULES FOR ADMIRALTY OR MARITIME CLAIMS AND ASSET FORFEITURE ACTIONS
Rule
A. Scope of Rules
B. In Personam Actions: Attachment and Garnishment
C. In Rem Actions: Special Provisions
D. Possessory, Petitory, and Partition Actions
E. Actions in Rem and Quasi in Rem: General Provisions
F. Limitation of Liability
G. Forfeiture Actions in Rem
