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TITLE I. SCOPE OF RULES; FORM OF ACTION

• Rule 1. Scope and Purpose
  
• Rule 2. One Form of Action

TITLE II. COMMENCING AN ACTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS, PLEADINGS, MOTIONS, AND ORDERS

• 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

TITLE III. PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS

• 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

TITLE IV. PARTIES

• 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

TITLE V. DISCLOSURES AND DISCOVERY

• 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

TITLE VI. TRIALS

• 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
• 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

TITLE VII. JUDGMENT

• 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 63. Judge's Inability to Proceed

TITLE VIII. PROVISIONAL AND FINAL REMEDIES

• Rule 64. Seizing a Person or Property
• Rule 65. Injunctions and Restraining Orders
• Rule 65.1. Proceedings Against a Surety
• 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

TITLE IX. SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS

• Rule 71.1. Condemning Real or Personal Property
• Rule 72. Magistrate Judges: Pretrial Order
• Rule 73. Magistrate Judges: Trial by Consent; Appeal
• Rule 74. [Abrogated.]
• Rule 75. [Abrogated.]
• Rule 76. [Abrogated.]

TITLE X. DISTRICT COURTS AND CLERKS: CONDUCTING BUSINESS; ISSUING ORDERS

• 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

TITLE XI. GENERAL PROVISIONS

• 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. Forms
• Rule 85. Title
• Rule 86. Effective Dates

APPENDIX OF FORMS

• See the PDF VERSION for Forms, beginning at page 358.