Tuesday, February 11, 2014

US Courts: Comment deadline is February 15, 2014, on proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which—in addition to limiting the time for service of the summons and complaint from 120 to 60 days; amending Rule 37(e)(failure to preserve discoverable information); and limiting the presumptive number of depositions to 5, the length of depositions from 7 to 6 hours, the number of interrogatories from 25 to 15, and the number of requests for admission to 25—would change the familiar Rule 26(b) limit on discovery (“reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence”) to “proportional to the needs of the case, considering the amount in controversy, the importance of the issues at stake in the action, the parties’ resources, the importance of the discovery in resolving the issues, and whether the burden or expense of the proposed discovery outweighs its likely benefit.”

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