(Redish and Phillips, 1979; paraphrased)
Burbank (1934) states in the "Rules Enabling Act of 1934" published in May 1982 in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review " that unless one is a cynic, it would leave one to wonder "that the original Federal Rules of Civil Procedure survived challenges intact." The decision of the court in more recent decisions such as in Sibbach v. Wilson & Co., has remained essentially unchanged.
SUMMARY & CONCLUSION
Quite simply, the Federal courts do not have the Constitutional right to claim superiority over the decisions made by and within the individual states but instead, the Federal Courts serve to provide a venue for those cases of diversity and in which justice is better served by the hearing being set in the Federal rather than the state courts. This work sought to examine the statements of: (1) 'The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have been drafted without enough consideration to how substance and procedure co-exist in society'; and (2) 'Substance...
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