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- SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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- THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1993
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- ORDERED:
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- 1.That the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for the
- United States District Courts be, and they hereby are, amended by
- including therein amendments to Civil Rules 1, 4, 5, 11, 12, 15,
- 16, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 50, 52, 53, 54,
- 58, 71A, 72, 73, 74, 75, and 76, and new Rule 4.1, and abrogation
- of Form 18-A, and amendments to Forms 2, 33, 34, and 34A, and new
- Forms 1A, 1B, and 35.
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- [See infra., pp. .]
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- 2.That the foregoing amendments to the Federal Rules of
- Civil Procedure shall take effect on December 1, 1993, and shall
- govern all proceedings in civil cases thereafter commenced and,
- insofar as just and practicable, all proceedings in civil cases
- then pending.
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- 3. That THE CHIEF JUSTICE be, and he hereby is, authorized
- to transmit to the Congress the foregoing amendments to the
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in accordance with the
- provisions of Section 2072 of Title 28, United States Code.
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- Separate statement by Justice White.
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- Dissenting statement by Justice Scalia with whom Justice
- Thomas joins and with whom Justice Souter joins as to Part II.
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