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Rediscovering Discovery: State Procedural Rules And The Level Playing Field, Seymour Moskowitz
Rediscovering Discovery: State Procedural Rules And The Level Playing Field, Seymour Moskowitz
Law Faculty Publications
In the modern era of few trials, the pretrial process is critical to the disposition of most cases. Discovery has been a fiercely debated subject for may years. Many commentators believe that discovery has become too expensive, very time consuming, and often abusive. Others disagree, and articulate an entirely different diagnosis of the problems in our civil justice system. Regardless, the scope of discovery, and the process for undertaking it, create predictable advantages and disadvantages for many types of litigants. Although state courts dispose of the vast majority of cases in the United States, academic writings on procedural matters, particularly …
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 …