Federal Courts are Considering Changes in Civil Discovery Rules for Electronic Evidence

Slashdot is reporting that the federal courts are considering changes to the discovery rules contained in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure governing the discovery and use of electronic evidence such as email.

The article contains links to the proposed rules, comments by civil rights attorneys from the Impact Fund arguing that the rules are too limiting, and comments by Microsoft that the rules don't go far enough.

While the article is laudable, Slashdot does somewhat a disservice to the people who care about such things by noting that the comment period ends today. Now all we can do is watch.

See the proposed rules

See also Pending Rules, Comments, and other available source material are available at

Mark Giangrande, DePaul Law Library