An important part of researching court rules is knowing how to update the rules and how to find proposed and new amendments to the rules.
- Check the relevant court's website to see if new court rules have been added. For a list of state court websites check the Legal Information Institute (LII) for links to each state's judicial branches.
- The annotated versions of state statutes sometimes publish the state's court rules. State statutes or codes may include new or amended rules. Search the Marqcat catalog for an individual state's statutes or code, or search online for a state's statutes or code.
- Check the advance sheets for the state's case reporter
- Look to see if a state's practice resource or treatise has issued a pamphlet or supplement regarding rule amendments
- New rules may be published in the relevant legal newspaper.
- Search databases such as Lexis and Westlaw
