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Judges' Class Action Notice and Claims Process Checklist and Plain Language Guide The checklist provides overall guidance on notice and notice plan development and provides guidance for improving class actions claims processes. A graphical plain language notice guide explains and highlights the important features of the illustrative notices. For more on class action notices, see: Illustrative Forms of Class Action Notices. This checklist is referenced in the Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Third Edition, p. 11 as Notice Checklist and Plain Language Guide. |
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civil P. 23 | January 1, 2010 |
| Form 14: Report of Parties' Planning Meeting Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f) and L.R. 16.3(b) | Fed. R. Civil P. 26 | January 1, 2010 |
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Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Third Edition This pocket guide is designed to help federal judges manage the increased number of class action cases filed in or removed to federal courts as a result of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA). It includes a section on determining federal jurisdiction that incorporates case-management practices and judicial interpretations of CAFA. It also includes suggestions for judicial review and administration of class settlements, especially regarding the disclosure of claims rates and actual payments to class members. This third edition includes an expanded treatment of the notice and claims processes. Revisions are concentrated in parts III and IV. |
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civil P. 23 | January 1, 2010 |
| Form 10: Report of Parties' Planning Meeting (Form 35, Fed. R. Civ. P.) | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civil P. 26 | January 1, 2010 |
| Form 25: Scheduling Order and Standing Order on Discovery Procedures | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civil P. 16, Fed. R. Civil P. 26, Fed. R. Civil P. 5.2 | December 15, 2009 |
| Form 22: Rule 16 Initial Order | Fed. R. Civil P. 16 | December 1, 2009 |
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Sealed Cases in Federal Courts An analysis of all cases filed in federal district courts, bankruptcy courts, and courts of appeals in 2006 revealed that 0.2% of civil cases, 1.6% of criminal cases, 16% of magistrate judge cases, 34% of miscellaneous cases, and 0.1% of appeals were sealed approximately two years after filing. Cases filed in bankruptcy courts are virtually never sealed. This report, prepared for a sealed case subcommittee of the Judicial Conference's standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, describes why and how cases were sealed. |
Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure | October 23, 2009 |
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Federal Judicial Center National, Case-Based Civil Rules Survey: Preliminary Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules This report presents preliminary findings from a survey of attorneys in recently closed civil cases which the Federal Judicial Center conducted in May and June 2009. Nearly half of the attorneys invited to participate responded. The report covers discovery activities and case management in the closed cases; electronic discovery activities in the closed cases; attorney evaluations of discovery in the closed cases; the costs of litigation and discovery; and attitudes toward specific reform proposals and, more generally, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. |
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure | October 1, 2009 |
| Form 40: Order for Final Pretrial Conference | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civil P. 16 | September 24, 2009 |
| Form 53: Statement of Consent to Proceed Before a United States Magistrate Judge and Designation | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civil P. 73 | June 1, 2009 |