Revised Discovery Rules in Practice - Some Answers But Questions Remain
Since the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Rules) took effect on December 1, 2015, the revised Rules have been applied in hundreds of new and pending cases before federal courts. In that time, some early questions about the application and interpretation of the revised Rules have been answered, while other questions remain to be hashed out in further case law development. This analysis summarizes how courts have addressed some of the more significant of those questions in the revised Rules’ first six months of use.
