Rules of Civil Procedure

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• N.B. Judge Orders MVA Plaintiff to Disclose Facebook Records

  
  Wise Law Blog — Authority: 437
  CBC reports on yet another Canadian Facebook disclosure decision - this time by a New Brunswick court: Court of Queens Bench Justice Fred Ferguson... wrote in his decision theres a low threshold for disclosing evidence and it met the "semblance of relevance" test required when deciding if information will be ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 126
  Here is the best summary I have seen that describes  the recent changes to the FRCP.  The new rules  went into effect on December 1, 2009.  The summary was written by the folks at Mayer Brown. Thanks to Dan Hull at What About Clients? for alerting me to it. 
  3 weeks ago

• Ontario: More Family Law Change Coming Tomorrow

  
  Wise Law Blog — Authority: 437
  Canadian Press reports on procedural changes for Ontarios family law courts that will be announced tomorrow by Attorney-General Chris Bentley: TORONTO — Ontario will announce changes to the way it deals with family law on Thursday in a bid to make the divorce process faster, cheaper and less combative, The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obsolete Already?: Why the 2006 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Need Revision

  
  The eDiscovery Paradigm Shift — Authority: 106
  As most people in the electronic discovery field are aware, eDiscovery is expensive, time consuming and complicated. The 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure did little more than acknowledge that electronic records are part of the discovery process. While this might have been shocking to some, it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Carefully Plan Trial Tactics

  
  Lawyerist — Authority: 589
  U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner’s recent opinion in a file-sharing lawsuit against Joel Tenenbaum was highly critical of defense counsel’s behavior and trial strategy. Tenenbaum was represented by Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson. “Defense counsel repeatedly missed deadlines, ignored rules, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Senators opine on Iqbal & Twombly in the Wall Street Journal

  
  Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog — Authority: 130
  Under the heading Restoring Justice or Hurting National Security?, yesterdays Wall Street Journal published two Senators letters to the editor about the Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2009. The Act is designed to legislatively overrule the Supreme Courts decisions in...
  4 weeks ago

• Attaching electronic funds for in martime jurisdiction

  
  Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog — Authority: 130
  The Second Circuit recently overturned its previous position regarding the attachment of electronic fund transfers (EFTs) for purposes of maritime jurisdiction. Rule B of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Supplemental Rules allows courts to attach tangible or intangible property...
  4 weeks ago

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