Changelog (page 8)

v1.70.0 August 24, 2026

Updated the Massachusetts Rules of Appellate Procedure to the edition including amendments effective September 1, 2026 — most importantly Rule 25, which the court has rewritten from “Damages for Frivolous Appeal in Civil Cases” to “Appellate Attorney's Fees and Costs” and substantially expanded
Nine other appellate rules had small text discrepancies against the court's current published version, all now corrected
Plain-English summaries for the ten affected rules have been withdrawn until they can be rewritten against the current text

v1.69.0 August 24, 2026

Added Louisiana — all four procedural codes and 3,363 articles, the largest jurisdiction on the site: the Code of Civil Procedure (1,260 articles), the Code of Criminal Procedure (795), the Code of Evidence (106), and the Children's Code (1,202)
Louisiana's procedure is statutory rather than court-promulgated, so the text comes from the Louisiana State Legislature and the unit is an article rather than a rule — every article carries its full text, its source credit showing each act that amended it, and linked cross-references to the other articles it cites
Each code is grouped by the legislature's own books, titles and chapters, so Criminal Procedure Article 401 sits under "Qualifications and Selection of Grand and Petit Jurors" rather than in a flat list of 795
Articles the legislature has repealed, redesignated or reserved are kept as entries showing what happened to them, so a citation to a renumbered article still leads somewhere — Civil Procedure Article 1067 records its redesignation to Article 1041

v1.68.0 August 23, 2026

Added Utah — all ten rule sets and 907 rules: Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rules of Evidence, Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of Juvenile Procedure, Rules of Small Claims Procedure, Rules of Business and Chancery Court Procedure, Rules of Court-Annexed Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Code of Judicial Administration, and the Supreme Court Rules of Professional Practice
Every Utah rule keeps the court's own run-in headings, so a subsection reads as it does in print — Civil Rule 26 opens "(a) Disclosure." and nests four levels deep — along with the Advisory Committee Notes where the court publishes them, the rule's effective date, and linked cross-references to the other rules it cites
The Rules of Professional Practice and the Code of Judicial Administration are the two largest sets at 267 and 210 rules, and both are grouped by the court's own chapters and articles rather than presented as one flat list

v1.67.0 August 23, 2026

Added Tennessee — all six rule sets and 592 rules: Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rules of Evidence, Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and Rules of Juvenile Practice and Procedure
Every Tennessee rule carries the Advisory Commission Comments the court publishes with it, each dated to the amendment it explains — Civil Rule 11.01 has comments from 2012, 2021 and 2022 — along with the rule's amendment history and linked cross-references to the other rules it cites
Rules the Tennessee courts have reserved or repealed are shown as reserved rather than left out, so a citation to one still leads somewhere. Twenty-two rules are in that state, most of them in the Rules of Criminal Procedure

v1.66.0 August 23, 2026

Fixed eight Ohio rules where a cross-reference or a case citation that wrapped onto its own line was being shown as a subdivision label, splitting one sentence into two. Appellate Rule 19 now reads "produced in a manner prescribed by subdivision (A). Motions and other papers may be produced in a like manner" as one passage, and the year in a case citation in Evidence Rule 702 is no longer labelled as a subdivision. The others were Appellate Rule 9, Appellate Rule 29, Civil Rule 45, Criminal Rule 24, Evidence Rule 615, and Juvenile Rule 40
Ohio Juvenile Rule 23 has been reserved by the Supreme Court of Ohio, but its page was still showing the committee commentary written for the former rule, and that commentary was still turning up in search. It has been removed

v1.65.0 August 23, 2026

Florida rules now match the current published versions, including the July 2026 amendments. Probate Rule 5.425's threshold for disposition without administration rose from $10,000 to $20,000, and Rule 5.530's summary administration threshold from $75,000 to $150,000
Rule 2.515 of the Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration now carries the court's new requirement that a signer certify the legal authorities cited in a filing exist and are accurately cited, with sanctions for a violation
Traffic Court Rule 6.100 refers to magistrates rather than hearing officers; Small Claims Rule 7.070 gained the 120-day limit for serving initial process; Appellate Rule 9.420 now says "unrepresented" where it said "pro se"; and Rule 2.540's accommodation-request provisions were rewritten. Twenty-three Florida rules changed in total
The Florida Evidence Code is now taken from the 2026 Florida Statutes rather than the 2025 edition, so section 90.5021 shows its 2026 amendment
Fixed 14 Florida rules where a cross-reference or a citation year that wrapped onto its own line was being shown as a subsection label. In Rule 2.420 a reference to "subdivision (e), (f), or (g)" now reads as one sentence, and in Appellate Rule 9.420 and Rule 2.540 a sentence that had been split in the middle of a statutory citation is whole again

v1.64.0 August 23, 2026

Texas rules now match the current published versions, including the Rules of Evidence as amended effective July 2, 2026 and the Rules of Appellate Procedure as amended effective February 6, 2026. Evidence Rule 412 was repealed and replaced, and the site had still been showing the former rule
Civil Rule 330 carries the court's rewritten provision on random assignment of cases and bench exchanges, replacing the former exchange-and-transfer text; Appellate Rule 31 reflects the change from arraignment to magistration; and Evidence Rule 404 carries the court's 2026 comment
Fixed six Texas rules where a cross-reference that wrapped onto its own line was being shown as a subsection label, which split one sentence into two paragraphs. Civil Rule 215's reference to "paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5) of this subdivision" now reads as one sentence, and the year in a case citation in Evidence Rule 601 is no longer labelled as a subsection numbered 1944. The others were Civil Rule 91a, Appellate Rule 28, Appellate Rule 34, and Evidence Rule 412

v1.63.0 August 23, 2026

Added 49 Ohio rules that were missing, including the whole set of probate division rules under Civil Rule 73 — definitions, appraisers, counsel fees, and the rest
Ohio rules that the Supreme Court has reserved now appear as reserved instead of vanishing. Eighteen rules were affected, among them Juvenile Rule 23, which had still been showing text the court has since withdrawn
Added New Jersey's Rules of Professional Conduct back to the site, all 43 of them, from RPC 1.1 through RPC 8.5
Fixed the lettering in New Jersey Rule 5:8-5, which showed two paragraphs labelled (a) and no (c), and in Rule 4:25-3, whose numbered list restarted at (1) instead of continuing at (17)
Three New Jersey rules on committee membership now carry the court's current wording on term limits

v1.62.0 August 22, 2026

Restored missing text in 142 California rules. A paragraph that the Judicial Council prints without a letter or number of its own was being dropped, so rules ended earlier than they should have. Rule 5.475 of the Rules of Court now carries the clerk's duty to send an endorsed filed copy of the order within 15 court days, which had been cut
Added the missing lettered sub-lists in eight California rules, including the training topics under Rule 5.230, and the fourth item in the list of protective orders in Rule 5.632
Eleven California rules had their amendment history printed in the middle of the rule text instead of in the amendment history. It now appears where it belongs, on rules including Rule 5.502, Rule 9.30, and Rule 10.40
Removed stray page numbers that had been appearing inside the text of 26 California rules
California rule cross-references are now links. A mention of another rule in the same set takes you straight to it, on 541 rules where only 35 had links before

v1.61.1 August 21, 2026

Fixed 55 Minnesota rules that showed a subsection letter on a line of its own, with the text of the subsection beginning on the next line. Rule 1.0 of the Rules of Professional Conduct now reads "(a) "Belief" or "believes" denotes…" as one paragraph, as the court prints it
The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines grids now keep their italics and footnote markers. A presumptive sentence of 406 months with a discretionary range of 346-480 and a footnote had been running together as "346-4801"; the range is italicised and the footnote marker raised, as in the published Guidelines
Restored the table of brief length limits in the committee comment to Rule 131 of the Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure, which had been missing

v1.61.0 August 21, 2026

Added South Carolina — all nine rule sets and 376 rules: Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rules of Evidence, Appellate Court Rules, Rules of Family Court, Rules of Probate Court, Rules of Magistrates Court, Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules, and Electronic Filing Rules
Every South Carolina rule carries the Supreme Court's own notes, which South Carolina prints after each subsection rather than at the end — Civil Rule 4 has eighteen of them, including the notes to each amendment
Cross-references between South Carolina's rule sets are linked. A citation such as "Rule 43(m)(1), SCRCP" in an evidence rule now leads to the Civil Rule 43, not to an evidence rule of the same number
Corrected titles that began with a bracket or a quotation mark across seven states, where the first letter was left lowercase — "[repealed]" now reads "[Repealed]", and Texas's ""courthouse Door" Defined" reads ""Courthouse Door" Defined"

v1.60.1 August 21, 2026

Corrected the titles of all 63 North Dakota Supreme Court Administrative Rules, which repeated the rule number inside the title ("Rule 58 - Vexatious Litigation"), and restored the [REPEALED], [OBSOLETE] and [NOT ADOPTED] markers on the eleven rules that carry one. Nine rules now show the numbering the court itself uses — Administrative Rule 6.1 rather than 6-1
North Dakota Criminal Rule 40 had no title at all; it now reads [Reserved for Future Use], like the other reserved rules
Tables in North Dakota rules render as real tables again. Administrative Rule 12's case-management time standards had run together — "75% within 120 days90% within 180 days" — and the columns are now aligned, with the links to the court's mediation forms in Appendix I restored
Fixed indentation in North Dakota Civil Rule 8, where the list of affirmative defenses sat one level too shallow

v1.60.0 August 20, 2026

Added North Dakota — eleven rule sets and 560 rules: Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Appellate Procedure, Rules of Court, Juvenile Procedure, Professional Conduct, Code of Judicial Conduct, Lawyer Discipline, Admission to Practice, and Supreme Court Administrative Rules
Every North Dakota rule carries the Supreme Court's own explanatory note where one exists, along with the full amendment history taken from the court's version records — so a rule shows not just when it last changed but every date it was amended
Corrected the citation abbreviations shown for Delaware, Florida, Pennsylvania and Arizona rules to the form each state's own courts use. Delaware's five rule sets now read Ct. Ch. R., Super. Ct. Civ. R., Super. Ct. Crim. R., Supr. Ct. R. and D.R.E.; Florida's are spaced as its own citation rule requires; and Arizona's appellate and special-action rules use ARCAP and RPSA

v1.59.0 August 19, 2026

Added two Delaware Court of Chancery rules that were missing: Rule 79.1 and Rule 79.2. Their text had been absorbed into Rule 79's amendment history, which is now correct
Corrected subsection numbering and indentation in 29 Delaware rules across all five rule sets. Several rules had subsection numbers missing entirely — Superior Court Civil Rule 4's service-of-process list, for instance, ran items (II) through (VI) together as plain text — and a few showed a citation year or a cross-reference as though it were a subsection number
Updated 11 U.S.C. § 330 in the Bankruptcy Code to reflect Pub. L. 119-76: the trustee fee is $105, and the repealed Chapter 7 Trustee Fund subsection has been removed
Updated Michigan Court Rule 6.201 to the current version. A new subsection (B), Notice of Expert Evidence of Diminished Capacity, had been added and the later subsections relettered, so subsection letters from (B) onward were out of step with the current rule

v1.58.1 August 15, 2026

Fixed cross-reference links inside plain-English summaries. Some links pointed to a page that didn't exist, and summaries of the Bankruptcy Rules linked references to the Civil Rules as though they were bankruptcy rules; those now read as plain text

v1.58.0 August 13, 2026

Redesigned the home page for faster navigation: it now opens with a search box, and the long list of every rule set has been replaced by a compact grid of jurisdictions — a much shorter page, especially on a phone
Every plain-English summary now carries a line noting that the summary is not the rule and that the rule text controls

v1.57.0 August 4, 2026

Added a Most Popular Rules page, ranking the most-read individual rules site-wide over the last 30 days

v1.56.0 July 31, 2026

Fixed a formatting issue in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Appellate Procedure, Evidence, and Bankruptcy Procedure where certain rule subheadings (e.g. Bankruptcy Rule 2002(a) and (b)) weren't bolded like their neighboring subsections; also corrected a small number of cross-reference links

v1.55.0 July 30, 2026

Added the Northern Mariana Islands: Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Supreme Court Rules, Probate Procedure, Attorney Discipline and Procedure, and Juvenile Delinquency Procedure are now available, sourced directly from the CNMI Commonwealth Law Revision Commission

v1.54.0 July 30, 2026

Added Connecticut: the Practice Book's Superior Court General Provisions, and Procedure in Civil, Family, Juvenile, and Criminal Matters, the Rules of Appellate Procedure, and the Code of Evidence are now available, sourced directly from the Connecticut Judicial Branch