New District Court Rules/ U.S.-Northern Ohio

This may be a bit late, but the national Civil Subpoena form, AO-88, has been updated to reflect electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that took effect December 1, 2006.

The text of Rule 45 (c) and (d) are added, informing recipients of key provisions of the rule, along with the text of the contempt sanctions in an effort to alert people of the possible consequences of not complying with the order “without an adequate excuse.”



The U.S. District Court for Northern Ohio also announced changes to Local Civil Rules 83.5 and 83.7, Local Criminal Rules 57.5 and 57.7, and the Court’s Criminal Justice Act Plan effective Feb. 1st., “by replacing references to the ‘Code of Professional Responsibility’ with the ‘Ohio rules of Professional Conduct.’”

Also, effective last Monday (Feb. 5), is the addition of Civil Rule 83.10 and “Appendix ‘J’” on “assignments of pro bono counsel” to the Northern District’s local civil rules.