At its Spring meeting Thursday and Friday in Washington, D.C., the Judicial Conference’s Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (aka, the Standing Committee) approved a revised package of amendments, which were recommended by its Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure in a May 2 report.
The amendments include significant changes from the original proposals, reflecting feedback from three public hearings that drew more than 120 witnesses and 2,356 written comments. The Standing Committee members were effusive in their praise for the open, transparent process that the Rules Committee and its two subcommittees have followed after the 2010 Civil Litigation Conference, held at Duke University’s law school, sponsored and organized by the advisory committee.
