RULE 80. STENOGRAPHER-STENOGRAPHIC REPORT OR TRANSCRIPT AS EVIDENCE
Effective Date: 1/17/1980
Obsolete Date: 3/1/1997
Whenever the testimony of a witness at a trial or hearing which was stenographically reported is admissible in evidence at a later trial, it may be proved by the transcript thereof duly certified by the person who reported the testimony.
Rule 80 was amended, effective March 1, 1997; March 1, 2011.
Rule 80 was amended, effective March 1, 2011, in response to the December 1, 2007, revision of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The language and organization of the rule were changed to make the rule more easily understood and to make style and terminology consistent throughout the rules.
SOURCES: Joint Procedure Committee Minutes of January 28-29, 2010, pages 22-23; January 25-26, 1996, page 23; January 17-18, 1980, page 10; Fed.R.Civ.P. 80.