RULE 80. TRANSCRIPT AS EVIDENCE
Effective Date: 3/1/1997
Obsolete Date: 3/1/2011
Whenever the testimony of a witness at a trial or hearing which was stenographically or electronically recorded is admissible in evidence at a later trial, it may be proved by the transcript thereof duly certified by the person who prepared the transcript.
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.