Abstract
This Article proposes a new Federal Rule concerning the federal courts’ online case management/electronic case filing system (CM/ECF). Whenever a party, the court clerk, or the presiding judge in a civil lawsuit electronically files a document, the Model Rule requires her to answer standardized online questions about that document. These questions are limited to indisputable factual information about case-related outcomes. By answering these questions, the filer codes research variables contemporaneously with the filing of every document. Such mandatory contemporaneous coding would provide comprehensive, reliable, and inexpensive descriptive empirical data6 for evidence-based rulemaking. This Federal Courts CM/ECF Descriptive Dataset should be publicly available.
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