Jeopardizing discovery in employment and civil rights litigation, the Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (the Advisory Committee) has developed a package of proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that would impose new and additional presumptive limits on civil discovery.
At the January 2013 meeting of the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which oversees the Advisory Committee, the chair of the Advisory Committee promised to finalize these rule changes by this April. The Standing Committee will vote on publishing the proposals for public comment as early as June 2013.
THE PROPOSALS
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