U.S. Supreme Court Approves Electronic Discovery Amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
The electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were approved this month by the U.S. Supreme Court:
On Wednesday, April 12, 2006, the United States Supreme Court approved, without comment or dissent, the entire package of proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure concerning the discovery of "electronically stored information." The package includes revisions and additions to Rules 16, 26, 33, 34, 37, and 45, as well as Form 35. The proposed amendments were transmitted to the Supreme Court last September, after the Judicial Conference unanimously approved them.The new rules and amendments have now been transmitted to Congress and will take effect on December 1, 2006, unless Congress enacts legislation to reject, modify, or defer the amendments. The amendments may be accessed on the U.S. Court’s Federal Rulemaking website at: http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/newrules6.html#cv0804.
From the Electronic Discovery Law blog.
For more about the 2006 Federal Rules amendments, see this post on document retention policies and sanctions and this post on the adoption of "clawback" agreements by default.