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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

• I. SCOPE OF RULES--ONE FORM OF ACTION

1. Scope of Rules
2. One Form of Action

• II. COMMENCEMENT OF ACTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS, PLEADINGS, MOTIONS, AND ORDERS

3. Commencing an Action
4. Summons
4.1. Serving Other Process
5. Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers
5.1. Constitutional Challenge to a Statute - Notice, Certificatio...
6. Computing and Extending Time; Time for Motion Papers

• III. PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS

7. Pleadings Allowed; Form of Motions and Other Papers
8. General Rules of Pleading
9. Pleading Special Matters
10. Form of Pleadings
11. Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations...
12. Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for J...
13. Counterclaim and Crossclaim
14. Third-Party Practice
15. Amended and Supplemental Pleadings
16. Pretrial Conferences; Scheduling; Management

• IV. PARTIES

17. Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity; Public Officers
18. Joinder of Claims
19. Required Joinder of Parties
20. Permissive Joinder of Parties
21. Misjoinder and Nonjoinder of Parties
22. Interpleader
23. Class Actions
23.1. Derivative Actions
23.2. Actions Relating to Unincorporated Associations
24. Intervention
25. Substitution of Parties

• V. DEPOSITIONS AND DISCOVERY

26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery
27. Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony
28. Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken
29. Stipulations Regarding Discovery Procedure
30. Deposition by Oral Examination
31. Depositions by Written Questions
32. Using Depositions in Court Proceedings
33. Interrogatories to Parties
34. Producing Documents, Electronically Stored Information, and T...
35. Physical and Mental Examinations
36. Requests for Admission
37. Failure to Make Disclosures or to Cooperate in Discovery; San...

• VI. TRIALS

38. Right to a Jury Trial; Demand
39. Trial by Jury or by the Court
40. Scheduling Cases for Trial
41. Dismissal of Actions
42. Consolidation; Separate Trials
43. Taking Testimony
44. Proving an Official Record
44.1. Determining Foreign Law
45. Subpoena
46. Objecting to a Ruling or Order
47. Selection of Jurors
48. Number of Jurors: Verdict
49. Special Verdict; General Verdict and Questions
50. Judgment as a Matter of Law in a Jury Trial; Related Motion f...
51. Instructions to the Jury; Objections; Preserving a Claim of E...
52. Findings and Conclusions by the Court; Judgment on Partial Fi...
53. Masters

• VII. JUDGMENT

54. Judgments; Costs
55. Default; Default Judgment
56. Summary Judgment
57. Declaratory Judgments
58. Entry of Judgment
59. New Trial; Altering or Amending a Judgment
60. Relief from Judgment or Order
61. Harmless Error
62. Stay of Proceedings to Enforce a Judgment
63. Judge’s Inability to Proceed

• VIII. PROVISIONAL AND FINAL REMEDIES

64. Seizing a Person or Property
65. Injunctions and Restraining Orders
65.1 Proceedings Against a Surety
66. Receivers
67. Deposit into Court
68. Offer of Judgment
69. Execution
70. Enforcing a Judgment for a Specific Act
71. Enforcing Relief For or Against a Nonparty

• IX. SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS

71.1 Condemning Real or Personal Property
72. Magistrate Judges: Pretrial Orders
73. Magistrate Judges: Trial by Consent; Appeal

• X. DISTRICT COURTS AND CLERKS

77. Conducting Business; Clerk’s Authority; Notice of an Order or...
78. Hearing Motions; Submission on Briefs
79. Records Kept by the Clerk
80. Stenographic Transcript as Evidence

• XI. GENERAL PROVISIONS

81. Applicability of the Rules in General; Removed Actions
82. Jurisdiction and Venue Unaffected
83. Rules by District Courts; Judge's Directives
84. Forms
85. Title
86. Effective Date

• XII. APPENDIX OF FORMS (U.S. Courts site)

XII. APPENDIX OF FORMS

• XIII. SUPPLEMENTAL RULES FOR CERTAIN ADMIRALTY AND MARITIME CLAIMS

A. Scope of Rules
B. In Personam Actions: Attachment and Garnishment
C. Actions in Rem: Special Provisions
D. Possessory, Petitory, and Partition Actions
E. Actions in Rem and Quasi in Rem: General Provisions
F. Limitation of Liability
G. Forfeiture Actions In Rem