RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE FOR THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS 1

Rule 1 - Scope and Purpose
Rule 2 - One Form of Action
Rule 3 - Commencing an Action
Rule 4 - Summons
Rule 4.1 - Serving Other Process
Rule 5 - Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers
Rule 5.1 - Constitutional Challenge to a Statute-Notice, Certification, and Intervention
Rule 5.2 - Privacy Protection For Filings Made with the Court
Rule 6 - Computing and Extending Time; Time for Motion Papers
Rule 7 - Pleadings Allowed; Form of Motions and Other Papers
Rule 7.1 - Disclosure Statement
Rule 8 - General Rules of Pleading
Rule 9 - Pleading Special Matters
Rule 10 - Form of Pleadings
Rule 11 - Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions
Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing
Rule 13 - Counterclaim and Crossclaim
Rule 14 - Third-Party Practice
Rule 15 - Amended and Supplemental Pleadings
Rule 16 - Pretrial Conferences; Scheduling; Management
Rule 17 - Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity; Public Officers
Rule 18 - Joinder of Claims
Rule 19 - Required Joinder of Parties
Rule 20 - Permissive Joinder of Parties
Rule 21 - Misjoinder and Nonjoinder of Parties
Rule 22 - Interpleader
Rule 23 - Class Actions
Rule 23.1 - Derivative Actions
Rule 23.2 - Actions Relating to Unincorporated Associations
Rule 24 - Intervention
Rule 25 - Substitution of Parties
Rule 26 - Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery
Rule 27 - Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony
Rule 28 - Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken
Rule 29 - Stipulations About Discovery Procedure
Rule 30 - Depositions by Oral Examination
Rule 31 - Depositions by Written Questions
Rule 32 - Using Depositions in Court Proceedings
Rule 33 - Interrogatories to Parties
Rule 34 - Producing Documents, Electronically Stored Information, and Tangible Things, or Entering onto Land, for Inspection and Other Purposes
Rule 35 - Physical and Mental Examinations
Rule 36 - Requests for Admission
Rule 37 - Failure to Make Disclosures or to Cooperate in Discovery; Sanctions
Rule 38 - Right to a Jury Trial; Demand
Rule 39 - Trial by Jury or by the Court
Rule 40 - Scheduling Cases for Trial
Rule 41 - Dismissal of Actions
Rule 42 - Consolidation; Separate Trials
Rule 43 - Taking Testimony
Rule 44 - Proving an Official Record
Rule 44.1 - Determining Foreign Law
Rule 45 - Subpoena
Rule 46 - Objecting to a Ruling or Order
Rule 47 - Selecting Jurors
Rule 48 - Number of Jurors; Verdict; Polling
Rule 49 - Special Verdict; General Verdict and Questions
Rule 50 - Judgment as a Matter of Law in a Jury Trial; Related Motion for a New Trial; Conditional Ruling
Rule 51 - Instructions to the Jury; Objections; Preserving a Claim of Error
Rule 52 - Findings and Conclusions by the Court; Judgment on Partial Findings
Rule 53 - Masters
Rule 54 - Judgment; Costs
Rule 55 - Default; Default Judgment
Rule 56 - Summary Judgment
Rule 57 - Declaratory Judgment
Rule 58 - Entering Judgment
Rule 59 - New Trial; Altering or Amending a Judgment
Rule 60 - Relief from a Judgment or Order
Rule 61 - Harmless Error
Rule 62 - Stay of Proceedings to Enforce a Judgment
Rule 62.1 - Indicative Ruling on a Motion for Relief That is Barred by a Pending Appeal
Rule 63 - Judge's Inability to Proceed
Rule 64 - Seizing a Person or Property
Rule 65 - Injunctions and Restraining Orders
Rule 65.1 - Proceedings Against a Security Provider
Rule 66 - Receivers
Rule 67 - Deposit into Court
Rule 68 - Offer of Judgment
Rule 69 - Execution
Rule 70 - Enforcing a Judgment for a Specific Act
Rule 71 - Enforcing Relief For or Against a Nonparty
Rule 71.1 - Condemning Real or Personal Property
Rule 71A - Renumbered Rule 71.1
Rule 72 - Magistrate Judges: Pretrial Order
Rule 73 - Magistrate Judges: Trial by Consent; Appeal
Rule 74 - Abrogated (Apr. 11, 1997, eff. Dec. 1, 1997).
Rule 75 - Abrogated (Apr. 11, 1997, eff. Dec. 1, 1997).
Rule 76 - Abrogated (Apr. 11, 1997, eff. Dec. 1, 1997).
Rule 77 - Conducting Business; Clerk's Authority; Notice of an Order or Judgment
Rule 78 - Hearing Motions; Submission on Briefs
Rule 79 - Records Kept by the Clerk
Rule 80 - Stenographic Transcript as Evidence
Rule 81 - Applicability of the Rules in General; Removed Actions
Rule 82 - Jurisdiction and Venue Unaffected
Rule 83 - Rules by District Courts; Judge's Directives
Rule 84 - Abrogated (Apr. 29, 2015, eff. Dec. 1, 2015).
Rule 85 - Title
Rule 86 - Effective Dates
Rule A - Scope of Rules
Rule B - In Personam Actions: Attachment and Garnishment
Rule C - In Rem Actions: Special Provisions
Rule D - Possessory, Petitory, and Partition Actions
Rule E - Actions in Rem and Quasi in Rem: General Provisions
Rule F - Limitation of Liability
Rule G - Forfeiture Actions in Rem
Rule 1 - Review of Social Security Decisions Under 42 U.S.C. §405(g)
Rule 2 - Complaint
Rule 3 - Service
Rule 4 - Answer; Motions; Time
Rule 5 - Presenting the Action for Decision
Rule 6 - Plaintiff's Brief
Rule 7 - Commissioner's Brief
Rule 8 - Reply Brief