Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) Rule 34governs the process by which a party in a legal proceeding can request access to documents, electronically stored information, and tangible items held by another party. It allows the requesting party to inspect, copy, test, or sample these items i...
Most lawyers (and hopefully judges) would be forgiven if they could not recite on demand some of the more obscure of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 80 (Stenographic Transcript as Evidence) and Rule 64 (Seizing a Person or Property) come to mind. But Rule 34 (Producing Docum...
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Federal Rules were last updated in 2016 and the changes were thought to be significant. Welcomed by some and scorned by others, those changes are still being evaluated and applied by judges across the country. The Sedona Conference has drafted a primer for FRCP 34. Like revisions to the fede...
On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule raising the salary thresholds for being exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The ruling applies
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Federal courts maintain strict standards for attorney conduct under Rule 11. When lawyers put their signature on court documents, they're making serious professional commitments about their filings. Let's break down what this means for legal practitioners and their clients. The standards for Rule 11...
RFK Jr. Targets Transgender Protections in One of First Moves at HHS by Fenit Nirappil and Dan Diamond for The Washington Post: The federal health department escalated the Trump administration’s campaign against transgender protections Wednesday, releasing public guidance that asserts a person’s sex...