Federal Civil Procedure: Federal Rule 16: Definition of Issues by the Pre-Trial Judge

Public Law Litigation and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Local Federal Civil Procedure for the Twenty-First Century

Federal Civil Procedure: Third Circuit Rejects Flexible Approach to the Doctrine of Indispensable Parties Embodied in Amended Federal Rule of Civil

THE Third Circuit has impugned the premise and frustrated the goal. of the new Federal Rule 19 by holding that the indispensable party doctrine is substantive law and therefore unaffected by a rule of procedure.' Following a fatal automobile accident, the executor of a deceased passenger brought a declaratory judgment action to establish the liability of the insurer, which had denied that the p...

The Federal Rules of Civil Settlement

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were originally based upon a straightforward model of adjudication: Resolve the merits of cases at trial and use pretrial procedures to facilitate accurate trial outcomes. Though appealing in principle, this model has little relevance today. As is now well known, the endpoint around which the Federal Rules were structured—trial—virtually never occurs. Today,...

The 1993 Revision of Federal Rule 11