Two of five cases the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear last week deal with the procedure or remedies that govern in federal court. Both decisions may be important to federal court litigants in a wide variety of cases.
Get ready for new methods of computing time periods in federal court litigation. On March 26, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court approved proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Bankruptcy Procedure, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure that will change many time periods set out in these rules and will also change the [...]