New York, Illinois, and California are the most significant states that have not adopted the FRCP. Furthermore, all three states continue to maintain most of their civil procedure laws in the form of codified statutes enacted by the state legislature, as opposed to court rules promulgated by the state supreme court, on the ground that the latter are undemocratic. But certain key portions of their civil procedure laws have been modified by their legislatures to bring them closer to federal civil procedure. COUNT 3
QSN1 Which states have not adopted FRCP? ANS1 New York, Illinois, and California are the most significant QSN2 How do New York, Illinois and California maintain civil procedure laws? ANS2 codified statutes enacted by the state legislature QSN3 What should New York, Illinois and California be using instead of codified statutes? ANS3 court rules promulgated by the state supreme court