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Civil Procedure: Commentary, Faust Rossi
Civil Procedure: Commentary, Faust Rossi
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Current Controversies Concerning Witness Immunity In The Federal Courts, Jane Duffy
Current Controversies Concerning Witness Immunity In The Federal Courts, Jane Duffy
Villanova Law Review
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The Federal Rules Of Evidence: Six Years After, Paul F. Rothstein
The Federal Rules Of Evidence: Six Years After, Paul F. Rothstein
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Federal Rules of Evidence have been in effect since 1975. Six years of experience is not much time in which to assess such a complex and important body of law. Nevertheless, there is now some "evidence" of the impact of the Federal Rules on the various states and circuits.
The Rules do seem to have proved successful enough to stimulate widespread imitation. Approximately half the states in the United States have or will very shortly have evidence codes patterned substantially on the Rules, even down to their numbers. Many of the remaining states (e.g., Iowa, Illinois, and Pennsylvania) have …