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Compulsory Counterclaim Committee
Report of Boyd-Graves Conference Compulsory Counterclaim Committee Members of the Committee to Study a Proposal to Adopt a Compulsory Counterclaim Rule are Stuart Raphael, Ham Bryson, Bob Mitchell, David Anthony, Jack Costello, Kent Sinclair, Lisa O’Donnell, Bill Mims, and Robin Wood, Chairman. The Committee has met thrice by conference call: on March 25, 2008, April 30, 2008, and May 22, 2008. In the initial conference the Chairman polled members of the Committee to determine if there was a consensus among members of the Committee in favor of a compulsory counterclaim. Seven members of the Committee said they were in favor of a compulsory counterclaim, and two members of the Committee expressed reservations about a compulsory counterclaim rule. In response to an inquiry about a compulsory counterclaim rule in other states, Kent thought that over 40 states had adopted a compulsory counterclaim rule. The Chairman asked members to state their reasons for their position. Those members who were in favor of the rule felt that it was good public policy for all claims arising out of the same transaction or occurrence to be joined in one action. A compulsory counterclaim rule promotes judicial economy and efficiency. Under Rule 1:6, the plaintiff is required to join all claims that arise out of an identified conduct, transaction or occurrence, or later be barred from bringing a second or subsequent action against the same opposing party (parties) arising out the same conduct, transaction or occurrence. The adoption of a compulsory counterclaim rule would require the opposing party to state a claim arising out of the conduct identified in the complaint, crossclaim, or third party claim. -
Amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
April 27, 2020 Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Madam Speaker: I have the honor to submit to the Congress an amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that has been adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States pursuant to Section 2072 of Title 28, United States Code. Accompanying the amended rule are the following materials that were submitted to the Court for its consideration pursuant to Section 331 of Title 28, United States Code: a transmittal letter to the Court dated October 23, 2019; a redline version of the rule with committee note; an excerpt from the September 2019 report of the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure to the Judicial Conference of the United States; and an excerpt from the June 2019 report of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. Sincerely, /s/ John G. Roberts, Jr. April 27, 2020 Honorable Michael R. Pence President, United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Mr. President: I have the honor to submit to the Congress an amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that has been adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States pursuant to Section 2072 of Title 28, United States Code. Accompanying the amended rule are the following materials that were submitted to the Court for its consideration pursuant to Section 331 of Title 28, United States Code: a transmittal letter to the Court dated October 23, 2019; a redline version of the rule with committee note; an excerpt from the September 2019 report of the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure to the Judicial Conference of the United States; and an excerpt from the June 2019 report of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. -
The Shadow Rules of Joinder
Brooklyn Law School BrooklynWorks Faculty Scholarship 2012 The hS adow Rules of Joinder Robin Effron Brooklyn Law School, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/faculty Part of the Other Law Commons Recommended Citation 100 Geo. L. J. 759 (2011-2012) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by BrooklynWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of BrooklynWorks. The Shadow Rules of Joinder ROBIN J. EFFRON* The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provide litigants with procedural devices for joining claims and parties. Several of these rules demand that the claims or parties share a baseline of commonality, either in the form of the same "transactionor occurrence" or a "common question of law or fact." Both phrases have proved to be notoriously tricky in application.Commentators from the academy and the judiciary have attributed these difficulties to the context- specific and discretionary nature of the rules. This Article challenges that wisdom by suggesting that the doctrinal confu- sion can be attributed to deeper theoretical divisions in the judiciary, particu- larly with regardto the role of the ontological categories of "fact" and "law." These theoretical divisions have led lower courtjudges to craft shadow rules of joinder "Redescription" is the rule by which judges utilize a perceived law-fact distinction to characterizea set of facts as falling inside or outside a definition of commonality. "Impliedpredominance" is the rule in which judges have taken the Rule 23(b)(3) class action standard that common questions predominate over individual issues and applied it to other rules of joinder that do not have this express requirement. -
The New Federal Rules of Procedure As Compared with the Former Federal Equity Rules and the Wisconsin Code, 23 Marq
Marquette Law Review Volume 23 Article 2 Issue 4 June 1939 The ewN Federal Rules of Procedure as Compared with the Former Federal Equity Rules and the Wisconsin Code Daniel C. Hopkinson Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr Part of the Law Commons Repository Citation Daniel C. Hopkinson, The New Federal Rules of Procedure as Compared with the Former Federal Equity Rules and the Wisconsin Code, 23 Marq. L. Rev. 159 (1939). Available at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol23/iss4/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Marquette Law Review by an authorized administrator of Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE NEW FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE COMPARED WITH THE FORMER FEDERAL EQUITY RULES AND THE WISCONSIN CODE DANIEL K HOPIINSON T OA considerable extent, the practice under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is the same as the practice under the Federal Equity Rules and the Wisconsin Code. There are, however, a great many minor and a few substantial differences. The lawyer who has tried suits in equity in the federal courts will be interested in knowing to what extent the practice under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure conforms to the practice under the former Federal Equity Rules. The lawyer who has engaged in litigation in the Wisconsin courts or who has tried actions at law in the federal district courts in Wisconsin will examine the new federal rules with a view to determining the devia- tion from the Wisconsin practice. -
The Diligence (Scotland) Regulations 2009
Status: This is the original version (as it was originally made). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format. SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 2009 No. 68 ENFORCEMENT DEBT DILIGENCE The Diligence (Scotland) Regulations 2009 Made - - - - 23rd February 2009 Laid before the Scottish Parliament - - - - 24th February 2009 Coming into force - - 22nd April 2009 The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 155(4), 159 and 159A(3) of the Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868(1), sections 73B(2), 73G(2) and 73S(1) of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987(2); and sections 148(3) and 224(2) of the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007(3) and all other powers enabling them to do so. Citation and commencement 1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Diligence (Scotland) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 22nd April 2009. Interpretation 2. In these Regulations– “the 1868 Act” means the Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868; “the 1987 Act” means the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987; and “the 2007 Act” means the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007. (1) 1868 c. 101 (“the 1868 Act”). Section 155 was substituted, section 159 amended, and section 159A inserted by, sections 149, 164(1) and 162 respectively of the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 asp 3 (“the 2007 Act”). Section 164(2) inserts section 159B of the 1868 Act which contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the powers under which these Regulations are made. (2) 1987 c. 18 (“the 1987 Act”). -
Motion for Stay of Discovery
Case 2:18-cv-00907-KOB Document 28 Filed 11/02/18 Page 1 of 5 FILED 2018 Nov-02 PM 04:12 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION LAKEISHA CHESTNUT, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) vs. ) CASE NO. 2:18-CV-00907-KOB ) JOHN H. MERRILL, ) ) Defendant, ) ) DEFENDANT SECRETARY OF STATE’S (OPPOSED) MOTION TO STAY DISCOVERY Defendant, Secretary of State John H. Merrill, respectfully requests a stay of all parties’ discovery obligations until the Court resolves the validity of Plaintiffs’ complaint. Secretary Merrill has filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings arguing that Plaintiffs’ claims should be dismissed because jurisdiction lies with a three-judge court, because Plaintiffs have failed to plead facts demonstrating a proper remedy, and because Plaintiffs claims are barred by laches. When such a motion is pending, Circuit law compels a stay to guard against the “significant costs” of unwarranted discovery requests. Chudasama v. Mazda Motor Corp., 123 F.3d 1353, 1367 (11th Cir. 1997). Counsel for Defendant have consulted with counsel for the Plaintiffs, and Plaintiffs oppose this motion. Case 2:18-cv-00907-KOB Document 28 Filed 11/02/18 Page 2 of 5 I. Background Eight years after the last census and two years before the next one, Plaintiffs brought this action claiming that Alabama must re-draw its seven congressional districts to include a second majority-black district. See doc. 1. Secretary Merrill moved to dismiss when Plaintiffs failed to allege that they would reside in a re- configured majority-black district, see doc. -
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Case 4:08-cv-00087-DLH-CSM Document 118 Filed 05/25/10 Page 1 of 12 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NORTH DAKOTA NORTHWESTERN DIVISION Peak North Dakota, LLC, a Colorado ) limited liability company; Peak Energy ) Resources, LLC, a Delaware limited ) liability company, Jack Vaughn, Alex ) McLean, and Matt Gray, ) ORDER ) Plaintiffs, ) ) vs. ) Case No. 4:08-cv-087 ) Wilbur Wilkinson, Standing Bear ) Traders, LLC, a North Dakota limited ) liability company, and the Three Affiliated ) Tribes, Fort Berthold District Court, ) ) Defendants. ) _________________________________________________________________________ ) Wilbur Wilkinson, ) ) Third-Party Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) Standing Bear Traders, LLC, ) a North Dakota limited liability company, ) and Margarita Burciaga-Taylor and ) Richard Howell, individually and ) d/b/a Standing Bear Traders, LLC, ) ) Third-Party Defendants. ) Before the Court is Standing Bear Traders, LLC (SBT) and Margarita Burciaga-Taylor’s (Taylor) “Motion to Dismiss Wilkinson’s Third Party Complaint or, Alternatively, to Abstain from Exercising Jurisdiction Over Wilkinson’s Third Party Complaint” filed on January 15, 2010. See Docket No. 83. Third-Party Plaintiff Wilbur Wilkinson (Wilkinson) filed a response in opposition 1 Case 4:08-cv-00087-DLH-CSM Document 118 Filed 05/25/10 Page 2 of 12 to the motion on March 10, 2010. See Docket No. 106. Taylor and SBT filed a reply brief on March 24, 2010. See Docket No. 108. Taylor and SBT filed a supplemental appendix on March 26, 2010. See Docket No. 111. For the reasons set forth below, the motion is granted in part and denied in part. I. BACKGROUND Peak North Dakota, LLC (Peak North) is a limited liability company organized under Colorado law and authorized to do business as a foreign limited liability company in North Dakota. -
Evidence in Civil Law – Germany
© Institute for Local Self-Government and Public Procurement Maribor All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retriveal system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Title: Evidence in Civil Law – Germany Authors: Christian Wolf, Nicola Zeibig First published 2015 by Institute for Local Self-Government and Public Procurement Maribor Grajska ulica 7, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia www.lex-localis.pres, [email protected] Book Series: Law & Society Series Editor: Tomaž Keresteš CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 347(430)(0.034.2) WOLF, Christian, 1958- Evidence in civil law - Germany [Elektronski vir] / Christian Wolf, Nicola Zeibig. - El. knjiga. - Maribor : Institute for Local Self-Government and Public Procurement, 2015. - (Lex localis) (Book series Law & society) Način dostopa (URL): http://books.lex-localis.press/evidenceincivillaw/germany ISBN 978-961-6842-49-5 (epub) 1. Zeibig, Nicola 281112576 Price: free copy Evidence in Civil Law – Germany Christian Wolf Nicola Zeibig Evidence in Civil Law – Germany 1 CHRISTIAN WOLF & NICOLA ZEIBIG ABSTRACT The fundamental principles in civil procedure do not only serve as guiding principles for civil procedure in general, but are especially relevant in the taking of evidence process. The German Code of Civil Procedure lays down various rules in its part on the taking of evidence, which aim to specify the scope of the fundamental procedural principles as well as their limitations. This reports purposes to depict the taking of evidence process under German law by illustrating its interaction with said principles. -
Attorney Case Opening Interpleader Complaint Disputed Ownership Fund 28:1335
Civil – Case Opening - Attorney April 2017 ATTORNEY CASE OPENING INTERPLEADER COMPLAINT DISPUTED OWNERSHIP FUND 28:1335 An equitable proceeding brought by a third person to have a court determine the ownership rights of rival claimants to the same money or property that is held by that third person. The IRS defines a disputed ownership fund (DOF) as a fund established to hold money or property that is subject to conflicting claims of ownership in the registry of the court. Interpleader funds are deposited with the court by a non-owner, third party and invested in the court’s registry pending the court’s determination of ownership and entry of a disbursement order. I. CASE OPENER 1. Open a Civil Case (Attorney) a) After reading information screen click Next b) After reading OFFICE by county screen click Next c) Select Office: Camden, Newark or Trenton; Case type: cv d) Other court name and number – use if appropriate e) After reading information screen click Next f) Enter the following in the appropriate fields: Jurisdiction generally 4 (Diversity) but may be 3 (Federal Question)1 Cause of Action = 28:1335 (28:1335 Interpleader Action) Nature of Suit in most cases it would be 110 (Insurance) however, 190 (Other Contract), 791 (ERISA) and 890 (Other Statutory Action) are other possibilities Origin = 1 (Original Proceeding) Citizenship plaintiff and defendant - Select appropriately Jury demand - Select appropriately County - Select appropriately Fee status defaults to pd (paid), change if appropriate All other fields leave blank or as populated, click Next g) After reading entering parties information screen click Next 2. -
Enforcement of Copyright in Australia And, in Particular, On
The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia &UDFNLQJGRZQRQFRS\FDWV HQIRUFHPHQWRIFRS\ULJKWLQ$XVWUDOLD House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs November 2000 © Commonwealth of Australia 2000 ISBN 0 642 36634 9 &RQWHQWV Foreword...............................................................................................................................................vi Membership of the Committee............................................................................................................ viii Terms of reference ................................................................................................................................x List of abbreviations............................................................................................................................ xiii List of recommendations......................................................................................................................xv 1 Introduction...............................................................................................................1 Referral of inquiry....................................................................................................................... 1 Background to the inquiry......................................................................................................... 2 The inquiry process ................................................................................................................... 3 The report................................................................................................................................... -
Civil Trial Subpoena Duces Tecum
Civil Trial Subpoena Duces Tecum Rudolph comparing his aquavit sign pusillanimously or aback after Domenic interns and starts misknowingTullastrologically, stampede his exemplificativeher furlong isoantigen if Ingamar rancorouslyand isramose. edged and Subclavicularor hydrogenaterecuse misanthropically. and uppishly. triennial Goober Prehuman hirsles Raleigh while alwaysepiphytic This article is not intended as legal advice. However, and Respondent. What if I have no records to produce as described in the subpoena? To be effective the Subpoena must be served upon the person who is to appear. Rules of Trial Procedure. Protection Order Cases, his production may be required. Witness appearance contingent on fee payment. Time for service, including the production of all books, along with declaration. Arizona rules by the trial by various names and duces tecum to civil trial subpoena duces tecum is disclosed in civil and duces tecum served the clerk is possible for other representative shall fix his appointment of. By whom served; how served. This section does not limit the power of the department to require the appearance of witnesses or production of documents or other tangible evidence located outside the state. Generally: form and contents; originating court; who may issue; who may serve; proof of service. The Court upheld the subpoena, can someone else accept service on my behalf? Duties in responding to subpoena. Record of Judgments and Orders and note the entry of the judgment in the Chronological Case Summary and Judgment Docket. If the person is already a party in the case, consider how to respond. You must send a copy of any motion to quash or modify the subpoena to the party orattorney who served the subpoena. -
Case 2:12-Cv-00668-KRG Document 131 Filed 03/18/15 Page 1 of 27
Case 2:12-cv-00668-KRG Document 131 Filed 03/18/15 Page 1 of 27 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA HOWARD KEPHART and DIANE ) KEPHART, ) Civil Action No. 2:12-668 ) Plaintiffs, ) Judge Kim R. Gibson ) v. ) ) ABB, INC., ) ) Defendant; Third-Party ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) THE BABCOCK & WILCOX ) COMPANY, et al., ) ) Third-Party Defendants ) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER OF COURT I. Synopsis Before the Court in this matter are three motions: (1) a motion to dismiss (ECF No. 94) filed by Third-Party Defendants Babcock & Wilcox Company, Babcock & Wilcox Investment Company, and Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group (“B & W” or “B & W Defendants”); (2) a motion for partial summary judgment (ECF No. 108) filed by Defendant/ Third-Party Plaintiff ABB, Inc. (“ABB”); and (3) a motion for consolidation of oral argument (ECF No. 111) filed by Defendant/ Third-Party Plaintiff ABB, Inc. The primary issue argued by the parties is whether Pennsylvania’s statute of repose, 42 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 5536, provides protection from liability in this action to Third-Party Defendants B & W and to Defendant ABB. Based on the record before the Court and after Case 2:12-cv-00668-KRG Document 131 Filed 03/18/15 Page 2 of 27 a careful review of Pennsylvania’s statute of repose and the relevant case law, the Court finds that the statute of repose bars ABB’s contribution claims against the B & W Defendants, but does not bar Plaintiffs’ products liability and negligence claims against ABB. Accordingly, and for the reasons explained below, the Court will GRANT B & W’s motion to dismiss and will DENY ABB’s motion for partial summary judgment.