On December 10, 2022, the Council on Court Procedures voted to promulgate amendments to the Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure (Rule 7, Rule 39, Rule 55, Rule 57, Rule 58, and Rule 68).

These amendments were submitted to the 2023 Legislative Assembly. Pursuant to ORS 1.735, they will become effective January 1, 2024, as the Legislative Assembly did not modify the action of the Council.

The amended rules in the document are set out with both the current and amended language. New language is shown in boldface with underlining, and language to be deleted is italicized and bracketed.

Please note that, during its December 10, 2022, meeting, the Council made changes to the previously published version of ORCP 55 for the following reason:

ORCP 55: The Council voted not to promulgate any of the changes that would have affected the operation or meaning of Rule 55 but, rather, only to adopt the two minor changes intended to insert a missing internal reference and correct a word choice to make it consistent with the Council’s grammatical preference.

Note also that, at the December 10, 2022, meeting, the Council’s published proposed new Rule 35, relating to vexatious litigants, received an affirmative vote of a majority of the Council but failed to achieve an affirmance by the required supermajority and, thus, is not among the promulgated rules.