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Amendments To The Federal Rules: The Function Of A Continuing Rules Committee, Charles A. Wright
Amendments To The Federal Rules: The Function Of A Continuing Rules Committee, Charles A. Wright
Vanderbilt Law Review
No development in American procedural history in the last century has exceeded in importance the adoption by the United States Supreme Court in 1938 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. These rules, the product of a distinguished Advisory Committee, introduced a system and a philosophy differing as markedly from the code pleading then in vogue as code pleading, in its day, had differed from common-law pleading. This new system has worked well in the federal courts, so well indeed as to stimulate a reexamination of procedure in many of the states, with nearly a dozen jurisdiction shaving already adopted …
Rule 43(A) And The Communication Privileged Understate Law: An Analysis Of Confusion, George W. Pugh
Rule 43(A) And The Communication Privileged Understate Law: An Analysis Of Confusion, George W. Pugh
Vanderbilt Law Review
What rules govern the admissibility of evidence in federal court? Rule 43 (a) purports to provide the answer with respect to cases falling within the ambit of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.' Is the Rule working satisfactorily, or should it now be abandoned in favor of a new and different solution? The problem thus presented is broad and pervasive. A definitive answer will not be attempted in this paper. Instead, the writer proposes to give only a general discussion of the broader aspects of the Rule, and to limit analysis of the cases to a very restricted area--the meaning …