Rule 1: These rules govern the procedure in all civil actions and proceedings in the United States district courts, except as stated in Rule 81. They should be construed and administered to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.
Rule 1.5: Don’t be a dick.
Thought Snax 
Rule 1.5 should be adopted into the code of conduct for freelance musicians in NYC. I will propose to the union that we negotiate this in our next contract. Meanwhile, I will support you when you run for president!
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Received, today, honest to goodness, from my daughter the 1: an email entitled “I am in love” with the text “with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Sent from my iPhone.” She’ll love this as much as I do, and probably pass it around at least one full class of law students.
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Who does she have for Civ Pro? I had civ pro with the late Robert Cover, whom I adored & who spent the entire semester on Rule 23, with predictable effect on my career! I already adore your daughter — hope I get to meet her sometime!
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I don’t remember spending a semester on Rule 23. I remember “Do trees have standing?” and reading “Executioner’s Song.” And I KNOW we were in the same class. (Additional scary thought–Bob Cover was the same age then that I am now. And I am SOOO much younger than that! )
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You’re worried about being old??? I went to high school with Chris Stone, author of “Do Trees Have Standing,” and son of the late, much lamented I.F. Stone, a gutsy muckraker of the left who wasn’t afraid to take on the denizens of the McCarthy era.
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Ok maybe not the WHOLE semester but it loomed large. And confess – you had no idea what summary judgment was at the end of the class. Or an interrogatory. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
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Jeepers!
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Molly has Eskridge for procedure, and has been accused of being “the most rule-of-law person n the building.” That, in turn, may reflect years of hearing about me wigging out over the district court’s proposed remedy in the Coney Island Icon procedure case.
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