Talk:US Civil Procedure

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Hector R. Cuprill

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Some suggestions: 1. There is no U.S. 'Civil Law'. I suggest deleting 'Civil Law'. 2. Links should be made to online sources whenever possible.

The below are some suggested links. www.uscourts.gov www.justia.gov (started by the guy that did Findlaw) www.wikipedia.org www.findlaw.com www.supremecourtus.gov

Also, I think that a compilation of sources for all law books should be a separately maintained page. This way, one could look at a list of links... and see if there is a public source available. Findlaw is good for this, but perhaps a decent wikipage would do too?

>Actually, there is a US Civil Law. See for e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_law

As of December 1, 2007, the Fed.R.Civ.P. were completely restyled according to the plain english movement and promulgated by the Court. I don't see any reason why they could not be reproduced for reference's sake here. 68.56.90.231 (talk) 23:12, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Added 5/22/09: I agree that the term US Civil Law is misleading, implying as it does that there is a general civil law in the US. It's also true, as noted, that Louisiana follows certain (but not all) civil law principles, but they are considered by most attorneys to be an exception to the general practice of US law.

Civil law should, IMO, not be merged with civil procedure. The term civil is used in a very different way. Civil procedure is the process by which courts carry out their business, and as noted the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have been adopted by almost all states. Civil law is, in the US, pretty much unique to Louisiana. It would be unnecessarily confusing to combine them.