Federal Rules

(As amended to December 1, 2010)1

• RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE FOR THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS
• 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 (Apr. 11, 1997, eff. Dec. 1, 1997).]
  • Rule 75. [Abrogated (Apr. 11, 1997, eff. Dec. 1, 1997).]
  • Rule 76. [Abrogated (Apr. 11, 1997, eff. Dec. 1, 1997).]
  • [Rule 71A. Renumbered Rule 71.1]
• 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
• XII. APPENDIX OF FORMS (U.S. Courts site)
• XIII. SUPPLEMENTAL RULES FOR ADMIRALTY OR MARITIME CLAIMS AND ASSET FORFEITURE ACTIONS
  • Rule A. Scope of Rules
  • Rule B. In Personam Actions: Attachment and Garnishment
  • Rule C. In Rem Actions: Special Provisions
  • Rule D. Possessory, Petitory, and Partition Actions
  • Rule E. Actions in Rem and Quasi in Rem: General Provisions
  • Rule F. Limitation of Liability
  • Rule G. Forfeiture Actions in Rem
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