Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Federal Courts Book 1)

The complete Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for practitioners and law students. It includes all changes through the updates of December 1, 2010. It is linked throughout the text for easy navigation to rules that reference each other.

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) govern the conduct of civil lawsuits in United States federal courts. The FRCP are promulgated by the United States Supreme Court pursuant to the Rules Enabling Act, and are approved by the United States Congress. The Court's modifications to the rules are usually based upon recommendations from the Judicial Conference of the United States, the federal judiciary's internal policy-making body.

While federal courts are required to apply the substantive law of the states as rules of decision in cases where state law is in question, the federal courts almost always use the FRCP as their rules of procedure.