This video describes amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(b)(1), 26(c)(1)(B), 26(d), and 34 that became effective on December 1.

Amendments to the following Federal Rules of Civil Procedure became effective on December 1, 2015: 1, 4, 16, 26, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, and 55. Rule 84 and the Appendix of Forms were abrogated.

Additional information about these amendments is available at FJC.gov:

Amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(e), which became effective on December 1, 2015, specify that sanctions for failure to preserve electronically stored information (ESI) require findings that (1) the ESI should have been preserved in the anticipation of litigation, (2) the party fai

Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which became effective on December 1, 2015, foster more cost-effective discovery through cooperation, proportionality, early and active case management, and considerations of electronically stored information (ESI).