Changelog (page 4)

v2.49.0 September 5, 2026

Arkansas joins the site with 22 rule sets and 688 rules, from the judiciary’s own portal. Arkansas keeps its rulesets separate rather than consolidating them: the Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of Criminal Procedure and Rules of Evidence; separate civil and criminal appellate sets plus the Rules of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals; the District Court Rules carrying small claims; the Administrative Orders, which have rule-like force; and the Rules of Professional Conduct and Code of Judicial Conduct with the discipline, bar admission and CLE rules. Reporter’s Notes and the ABA-style comments are included as notes

v2.48.0 September 5, 2026

South Dakota joins the site with 13 rule sets and 1,335 rules. South Dakota has no separate rules volume — the Supreme Court promulgates the rules and the legislature codifies them into the South Dakota Codified Laws, so a rule cites exactly like a statute (“SDCL 15-6-56”). Coverage includes the Rules of Procedure in Circuit Courts, the Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Rules of Evidence, civil appellate procedure and the Small Claims Procedure, together with the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Code of Judicial Conduct and the attorney discipline rules. The criminal set is the 41 procedural chapters of Title 23A; the title’s substantive chapters — crime victims’ compensation, wiretapping, civil forfeiture — are statutes rather than rules and are not included

v2.47.0 September 5, 2026

New Mexico joins the site with 26 rule sets and 1,303 rules — the New Mexico Rules Annotated, which pairs a numbered set to each court and subject. Coverage includes the Rules of Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure for the district courts, with their separate magistrate, metropolitan and municipal court counterparts — the same motion carries a different rule number in each; the Rules of Evidence and Rules of Appellate Procedure; the Children’s Court Rules; and the Rules of Professional Conduct, Code of Judicial Conduct, bar admission and disciplinary rules

v2.46.0 September 5, 2026

The U.S. Virgin Islands joins the site with nine rule sets — the home-grown 2017 Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure and Evidence that replaced the territory’s former practice of borrowing the federal rules; the Rules of Appellate Procedure for the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands, which has heard all Superior Court appeals since 2007; the Rules Governing the Superior Court, the Small Claims Rules and the Habeas Corpus Rules; and the Rules of Professional Conduct at Supreme Court Rule 211 with the bar admission and disciplinary rules

v2.45.0 September 4, 2026

Kentucky joins the site with 11 rule sets and 1,329 rules — the Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure and Evidence; the standalone Rules of Appellate Procedure that replaced CR 72 through 76 effective January 1, 2023; the Family Court and Juvenile Court rules; and the Rules of the Supreme Court, published here as the Rules of Professional Conduct at SCR 3.130, the bar admission and judicial conduct rules, the remaining Supreme Court Rules including attorney discipline, and the Administrative Procedures of the Court of Justice

v2.44.0 September 3, 2026

Nebraska joins the site with 59 rule sets — the whole of the Nebraska Supreme Court Rules, one set per article, together with the Nebraska Evidence Rules, which the Legislature enacted as statutes at Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 27-101 to 27-1103 and titles as rules. Coverage includes the Rules of Appellate Practice, the Rules of Pleading in Civil Cases and Rules of Discovery in Civil Cases (restyled effective January 1, 2025), the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Revised Code of Judicial Conduct with their preambles and scope, the uniform county court, district court and separate juvenile court rules, and the admission, discipline, continuing-education and trial-court practice rules

v2.43.0 September 3, 2026

Mississippi joins the site with nineteen rule sets — the Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure (effective July 1, 2017, replacing the former uniform rules in criminal cases), Evidence (as restyled in 2016) and Appellate Procedure; the Uniform Chancery Court Rules and the Uniform Civil Rules of Circuit and County Court Practice; the justice court and youth court rules; the Rules of Professional Conduct and Code of Judicial Conduct with the court’s comments and commentary; and the attorney discipline, bar admission, judicial performance, court reporter, mediation, collaborative law, lawyer and judge assistance, law student practice and courtroom camera coverage rules

v2.42.0 September 3, 2026

Hawaiʻi joins the site with twenty-nine rule sets — the Rules of Civil Procedure, Penal Procedure and Appellate Procedure; the Family Court Rules and Probate Rules; the district court, circuit court, small claims, civil traffic, land court and tax appeal court rules; arbitration, electronic filing and court records; and the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Revised Code of Judicial Conduct and the Supreme Court’s own rules, each with the court’s commentary where it publishes one

v2.41.0 September 3, 2026

West Virginia joins the site with every rule set the Supreme Court of Appeals publishes — twenty in all: the Rules of Civil Procedure (as comprehensively amended effective January 1, 2025), Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Appellate Procedure; the Trial Court Rules, including the Business Court Division; the family, magistrate, juvenile, child abuse and neglect, habeas corpus, domestic violence, financial exploitation and minor guardianship rules; the Rules of Professional Conduct and Code of Judicial Conduct with the court’s comments; and the judicial disciplinary and lawyer assistance program rules

v2.40.0 September 3, 2026

Iowa joins the site with fourteen rule sets from the Iowa Court Rules — the Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure (as rewritten effective July 1, 2023), Evidence, Appellate Procedure, Probate Procedure, Juvenile Procedure and Electronic Procedure; the Rules of Professional Conduct and Code of Judicial Conduct, each with the court’s official comments; the Rules for Admission to the Bar; the three attorney-discipline chapters governing the Grievance Commission and Attorney Disciplinary Board; and the Commission on Judicial Qualifications
Iowa rules cite one another across chapters — a discipline rule pointing at a bar-admission rule, an appellate rule at a rule of civil procedure — and those citations link directly to the rule they name

v2.39.1 September 2, 2026

On the States page, each state whose rules are not yet on the site but whose practice guide is published now carries a visible Practice guide badge that opens the guide directly

v2.39.0 September 2, 2026

Practice guides for all 56 U.S. jurisdictions — every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa — at each jurisdiction’s page under Practice Guide. Each covers the court system, every ruleset a litigator touches, civil, criminal, evidence and appellate mechanics, professional conduct and discipline, and orientation notes for lawyers new to the jurisdiction
Every guide was checked against official sources and carries a last-verified date and its sources; each opens with a notice that it is for informational purposes only and is not legal advice
Jurisdictions whose rules are not yet on the site — Iowa, New Mexico, Hawaii, the District of Columbia and seventeen more — now have a page with their guide, linked from States

v2.38.0 September 2, 2026

Repaired four Colorado rules whose titles were a fragment of another rule’s commentary: Colo. RPC 1.2, 1.6 and 1.7, and C.A.R. 37, now carry the court’s own titles. A wrapped cross-reference at the start of a two-column comment line had been read as a rule heading
The comments to Colo. RPC 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.13, 2.3 and 3.7 are now complete; each had been cut at the same false heading. CRE 302 and 412 read “(No Colorado Rule)” as the court prints it
Va. Sup. Ct. R. 5A:12 follows the court’s corrected text: its Oral Argument paragraph is (h), not a second (g)
Every Colorado, Illinois and Virginia rule now has a current structured content version behind it, matching North Carolina and Washington earlier today

v2.37.0 September 2, 2026

Washington’s September 1, 2026 rule amendments are in: 31 rules updated across nine Washington rule sets, and one new rule — GR 44, Court Antiharassment Policy, which requires every Washington court to adopt an antiharassment policy by September 1, 2027
The Rules of Appellate Procedure’s capital-case rules, RAP 16.19 through 16.27, are rescinded, and the death-penalty carve-outs in RAP 12.5, 16.1, 16.3 and 16.5 are removed. Also amended: RAP 4.2, 10.3, 17.3 and 18.17, which now require record citations to specific pages
ER 904 adds new categories of documents admissible without a witness, CrR 4.7 rewrites the custody and use of discovery materials, CrR 4.2’s plea statement is revised, and CR 4.1’s domestic relations summons now covers domestic partnerships
Also amended: GR 7 (retitled Local Court Rulemaking), GR 9, GR 14’s style sheet appendix and GR 30; JuCR 6.4 and 7.7; RPC 1.16; ELC 9.2; and APR 6 and 15P, which raises the Client Protection Fund’s maximum gift from $150,000 to $250,000
Every Washington rule now has a structured content version behind it, so future amendments can be diffed against the current text. Summaries for the amended rules will be regenerated

v2.36.0 September 1, 2026

Added the Rules of the Louisiana Supreme Court and five companion sets — 366 rules in all, taking Louisiana to thirteen rule sets
The Supreme Court Rules proper (212 rules) cover practice and procedure in the Court: Rule X on writ applications, appeals, briefs, rehearings, argument and submission, costs, and the administrative rules the Court promulgates for the courts below
The Court’s largest components are published as their own sets, so each can be browsed and cited on its own: Rules for Lawyer Disciplinary Enforcement (Rule XIX and its four appendices, 66 rules), Rules for Judicial Disciplinary Enforcement (Rule XXIII and the Rules of the Judiciary Commission, 52), Rules for Admission to the Bar (Rule XVII, 22), the Code of Judicial Conduct (seven canons) and the Rules for Continuing Legal Education (Rule XXX)
The unit is the section rather than the rule, so a citation resolves to the provision it names: Rule XIX alone runs to 157,000 characters across 39 sections. Sections are cited as La. Sup. Ct. R. XIX § 11, and cross-references between them link automatically
Each rule carries the Court’s own adoption and amendment history, and the Comment or Commentary published with it
The fill-in forms the Court links alongside the rules are not included: they are blank templates rather than rule text

v2.35.0 September 1, 2026

Added the Rules for Louisiana District Courts (204 rules in six Titles) — the seventh Louisiana rule set
One uniform set governs practice in every district court, family court and juvenile court in the state. Title I covers proceedings generally: construction and application of the rules, dates of court, judges and facsimile transmissions, court personnel, courtroom use and security, courtroom decorum and the conduct of attorneys, and record management
Title II governs civil proceedings — pleadings and filing, discovery, alternative dispute resolution and special masters, exceptions and motions, and trials. Title III governs criminal proceedings, from allotment and assignment of cases through preliminary motions, appeals from courts of limited jurisdiction, withdrawal as counsel and post-conviction relief
Title IV governs family law proceedings, including hearing officer conferences and proceedings under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act; Title V governs juvenile proceedings; and Title VI governs litigation filed by inmates
Each rule carries its adoption and amendment history, and the Comment the court publishes on 61 of them. Rules are cited as La. Dist. Ct. R. 9.5, and cross-references between them link automatically
The Appendices are not included: each judicial district maintains its own, and they set out local practice rather than the statewide rules

v2.34.0 September 1, 2026

Removed 79 cross-reference links that pointed at rules this site does not carry. A citation whose target is not published now reads as plain text, which is correct, rather than as a link that leads nowhere
Most were in Colorado Criminal Procedure (51) and Illinois Civil Procedure (16), with a few in Colorado Civil Procedure, the Michigan Court Rules, Minnesota Appellate Procedure, South Carolina Appellate Court Rules, Illinois Criminal Procedure and New Jersey Municipal Court
Fixed cross-references that were being resolved against the wrong state. A Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee or Florida rule citing its own “R. Crim. P.” was matched by Colorado’s citation format, and a Georgia rule citing “UMCR 15.2” was linked to the Michigan Court Rules
Corrected six rules where a citation inside a link to the court’s own website was itself linked, producing a reference that pointed to the wrong rule set. Two Indiana rules citing an Administrative Rule linked to a Trial Rule of the same number
103 rules were updated in all. No rule text changed — the corrections are to the links only

v2.33.0 September 1, 2026

Added the Massachusetts Uniform Small Claims Rules (Trial Court Rule III, 12 rules) — the ninth Massachusetts rule set
These govern every small claims action in the Trial Court — the District Court, Boston Municipal Court and Housing Court departments — from filing a statement of claim and notice to the defendant through transfer, amendments and discovery, attachments, trials and judgments, the payment hearing, relief from judgment, enforcement of judgments, and appeal
Each rule carries its own amendment history and, where the court publishes it, its Commentary. Rules are cited as Mass. Unif. Sm. Cl. R. 7
Also corrected cross-references to rules whose number ends in a capital letter — a citation to Rule 7A now links to Rule 7A rather than Rule 7. This affected 18 rules across Alabama, Nevada, Idaho, Oklahoma and the Bankruptcy Code, where rules such as 45 and 45A, or 71 and 71A, are different rules

v2.32.0 September 1, 2026

Added the Massachusetts Rules of Domestic Relations Procedure (78 rules in ten parts) — the eighth Massachusetts rule set
These govern practice in the Probate and Family Court Department: divorce, separate support, custody of minor children, annulment, paternity and support, modification, contempt and abuse prevention
Coverage runs from commencement of an action and service of process through pleadings and motions, parties, depositions and discovery, trials, judgment, provisional and final remedies, and the rules governing courts and clerks
Most rules are marked identical to their counterpart in the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure; the ones that are not are where domestic-relations practice diverges. Reporter's Notes and amendment history are included where the court publishes them
Rules are cited as Mass. R. Dom. Rel. P. 4, and cross-references between them link automatically

v2.31.0 September 1, 2026

Added the Uniform Rules of Louisiana Courts of Appeal (40 rules in five parts) — the sixth Louisiana rule set and the first promulgated by the courts rather than the Legislature
One set governs practice in all five circuits. Coverage runs from the court itself, its panels and the scope of review, through preparation and transmission of the record, fees and docketing, motions, dismissal and abandonment, assignment on the calendar, the form and contents of briefs, oral argument, decisions, notice of judgment and rehearing
Separate parts cover the special appeals — administrative and election cases — writ applications, including the notice of intention, the time to file, stays and the contents of an application, and expedited procedures in certain cases involving minors
Rules are cited as La. Unif. R. Ct. App. 2-12, and a reference to a subdivision such as Rule 2-12.4 links to the rule it belongs to
Louisiana procedure is otherwise legislative, so this joins the four Codes and the Rules of Professional Conduct already on the site