The U.S. Supreme Court now has before it proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that include some significant changes in discovery rules. The idea is to decrease costs and increase efficiency.

The Judicial Conference of the United States, the policymaking arm of the federal judiciary, launched a discovery study project in the fall of 1996, after many years of complaints from the bar and the public about the costs associated with discovery.

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