Rules Enabling Act

Rules Enabling Act

The Rules Enabling Act (ch. 651, USStatute|73|415|48|1064|1934|06|19, USC|28|2072) is an Act of Congress that gave the judicial branch the power to promulgate the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Amendments to the Act allowed for the creation of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and other procedural court rules. The creation and revision of rules pursuant to the Rules Enabling Act is usually carried out by the Judicial Conference of the United States, the policymaking body of the United States federal courts.

While the courts exercised rulemaking powers granted to them under the Act without Congressional intervention for nearly forty years, Congress refused to allow the Federal Rules of Evidence to go into effect after their approval by the Supreme Court in 1973. The Rules of Evidence were eventually passed, with substantial changes, as legislation by Congress. Because of Congress's intervention in 1973 and subsequent years, the rulemaking powers granted to the judiciary by the Act have been reduced, causing the Act to command less importance in recent years. However, the Act still prevents litigants from challenging the validity of constitutional Federal Rules via the Erie Doctrine.

References

* [http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/rulesenablingact.html Current text of the Act as amended] at uscourts.gov
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4043/is_200301/ai_n9222806 Creating the Federal Rules] at findarticles.com


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