An unannotated electronic edition of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is posted free on the Internet by the Cornell Legal Information Institute, which also provides the FRCP in eBook format. The Federal Judiciary posts the current FRCP in PDF format. Unannotated print editions include Federal Civil Judicial Procedure and Rules (Thomson/West), and Federal Civil Rules Booklet (Dahlstrom).
Annotated print editions are published at the end of Title 28 in the United States Code Annotated (USCA) and the United States Code Service (USCS), as well as O'Connor's Federal Rules: Civil Trials (Jones McClure). Annotated electronic editions are available on Lexis (GENFED;FRCRP) and Westlaw (US-RULES). To find all the mentions of a particular rule by a particular court, use Shepard's or KeyCite and limit the results. To find all the mentions of a particular subsection by a particular court, go into the relevant Westlaw database and search on this sample format that you would use for Rule 42(a): f.r.c.p. "FED.RULES CIV.PROC" "FEDRULES CIVPROC" F.R.CIV.P. F.R.CIV.PRO. FED.R.CIV.P. FEDRCIVP FRCIVP /5 42(a) (42 +3 (a)).
New Rules: Pending Rule Amendments are posted by the Federal Judiciary.