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A Civil Discovery Dilemma For The Arizona Supreme Court, Carl W. Tobias
A Civil Discovery Dilemma For The Arizona Supreme Court, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
The drafters of the 1938 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure hoped to establish those rules as a model that the states could adopt, thus fostering national and intrastate procedural uniformity. This objective was not realized generally or by very many specific jurisdictions. Observers of the increasingly fractured procedural regime in the federal arena have voiced concerns about the mounting numbers of strictures, the accelerating pace of procedural change and the growing inconsistency of the requirements imposed. Illustrative are the major 1983 and 1993 federal discovery amendments, which new discovery provisions further revised in December 2000. The Civil Justice Reform Act …
Erie Railroad V. Tompkins, Wendy Collins Perdue
Erie Railroad V. Tompkins, Wendy Collins Perdue
Law Faculty Publications
Erie Railroad v. Tompkins 304 U.S. 64 (1938), limited the power of federal courts to create judge-made law that would displace state law. Jurists view the Supreme Court's decision both a modern cornerstone of American judicial federalism and an example of legal realism's influence.
Local Federal Civil Procedure For The Twenty-First Century, Carl W. Tobias
Local Federal Civil Procedure For The Twenty-First Century, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
Federal civil procedure is now byzantine. Lawyers and parties face, and federal judges apply, a bewildering panorama of requirements. There are strictures in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as well as Title 28 of the United States Code and dozens of substantive statutes. A stunning array of local measures-including local rules; general, special, and scheduling orders; individual-judge practices; and mechanisms that courts adopted under the Civil Justice Reform Act (CJRA) of 1990 to reduce cost and delay-also govern cases in all ninety-four districts. Many of the provisions· are inconsistent or duplicative, while a significant percentage are difficult to discover, …
The Expiration Of The Civil Justice Reform Act Of 1990, Carl W. Tobias
The Expiration Of The Civil Justice Reform Act Of 1990, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
Ever since the United States Congress passed the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 (CJRA), a minor mystery of federal court jurisprudence has been whether - and if so, precisely when - that significant and controversial legislation expired. The measure instituted unprecedented nationwide experimentation with procedures that lawmakers intended to decrease cost and delay in civil litigation, but the statute's implementation additionally balkanized federal practice and procedure.