ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RULES FOR CIVIL PROCEDURE
Office of the Secretary
Supreme Court of the United States Building
WASHINGTON, D. C.
REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
To The Honorable, The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court of the United States:
The members of the Advisory Committee, appointed by the Court
to prepare and submit to the Court a draft of a unified system of rules
of civil procedure for the United States district courts, herewith sub-
mit their report:
The draft of the forms mentioned in Rule 86 has not
been completed but will be finished at an early date.
Some broad questions of policy were discussed in the
Foreword to the Preliminary Draft printed and published in
May 1936 (pp. viii-xviii). The additional comments which the
Committee desire to make will be found in the notes to each
rule appended to the draft of rules in this report.
Many changes have been made from the Preliminary Draft
published in May 1936 and we recommend that this report be
printed and distributed among the judges of the district
courts and circuit courts of appeals, the committees of
lawyers, the bar associations and the individual members of
the profession who have aided the Advisory Committee, with
the object of obtaining further suggestions from members of
the profession during the remainder of this year while the
draft is under consideration by the Court.
The Advisory Committee organized and commenced work
in June 1935, and since that date there has been hardly a
period when either the whole Committee or subcommittees or
individual members of the Committee have not been engaged on
this work. The task has been laborious but interesting. We
hope our draft will furnish material which will aid the Court
in effecting real reform in the procedure in the district
courts.