[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1445 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 1445

To amend Rule 30 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to restore the 
                stenographic preference for depositions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 1995

Mr. Moorhead (for himself, Mrs. Schroeder, Mr. Coble, and Mr. Canady of 
   Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend Rule 30 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to restore the 
                stenographic preference for depositions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraphs (2) and 
(3) of Rule 30(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are amended 
to read as follows:
            ``(2) Unless the court upon motion orders, or the parties 
        stipulate in writing, the deposition shall be recorded by 
        stenographic means. The party taking the deposition shall bear 
        the cost of the transcription. Any party may arrange for a 
        transcription to be made from the recording of a deposition 
        taken by nonstenographic means.
            ``(3) With prior notice to the deponent and other parties, 
        any party may use another method to record the deponent's 
        testimony in addition to the method used pursuant to paragraph 
        (2). The additional record or transcript shall be made at the 
        party's expense unless the court otherwise orders.''.
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