Amendments to the Rules

Asymmetric Information and Legislative Rules: Some Amendments

We re-examine the major tenets of the informational theory of legislative rules, focusing on the informational efficiency of rules with varying degrees of restrictiveness. When committees are heterogeneous, full efficiency is attainable under the unrestrictive open rule as well as the somewhat restrictive modiÞed rule. In contrast, the restrictive closed rule always leads to inefficiencies. Whe...

Amendments , Covering , and Agenda Control : The Politics of Open Rules ∗

Agenda control in legislative bodies is an important and complicated topic. Frequently, the discussion of agenda control is limited to procedures that restrict what may be considered on the floor, as exemplified by “closed rules” in the United States House of Representatives. In this paper, we expand the discussion of agenda control by considering the effects of predetermining part of an amendm...

An Update on the 1993 Federal Rules Amendments and the Montana Civil Rules

Judicial Discretion and the 1983 Amendments to the Federal Civil Rules

A Warrant to Hack: an Analysis of the Proposed Amendments to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure

In 2013, a federal magistrate judge denied an FBI request for a remote access search warrant, concluding that, among other deficiencies, Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prevented him from granting a warrant to hack a computer when the location of the device was not known. Just five months later, the DOJ proposed amendments to Rule 41 seeking to eliminate the territorial limit...