Primary Authority | Federal Local Rules
Publications that contain the law

| FEDERAL LOCAL COURT RULES This set of loose-leaf volumes is a great resource for the local rules of federal court, both trial and appellate. For example, the F.R.C.P. (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) governs all federal civil trials. But each local court has its own set of local rules that supplement the general, national rules. This publication collects those local rules to each individual court.
| THE INDEX Each set of rules has its own index, which will lead the researcher to the appropriate rule within that jurisdiction. First, the researcher simply looks up the court rules for the specific court (which are arranged alphabetically by jurisdiction), the locates the index at the end of that set of local rules.
| MAIN VOLUME The rules themselves are applicable to the local court. Local rules often deal with such details as filing procedures and form requirements.
| MORE . . . Federal Local Court Rules also provides research references not found in the official local rules. Thus, if there is ever a dispute regarding a local rule, research in this set of books for authority that may have applied or clarified the rule in question.