Scope These admiralty local rules apply only to civil proceedings that are governed by the Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("Fed. R
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The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the civil local rules of this court are also applicable in these proceedings, but to the extent that the civil local rules are inconsistent with these admiralty local rules, these admiralty local rules govern. Cross Reference See Fed. R. Civ. P. Supp. A, G. Commentary Fed. R. Civ. P. Supp. G, which governs statutory condemnation and forfeiture proceedings analogous to maritime actions in rem, took effect on December 1, 2006.
See Admir. L.R. 12, infra. Prior to enactment of Fed. R. Civ. P. Supp. G, statutory condemnation and civil forfeitures procedures were interspersed amongst other Supplemental Admiralty Rules, particularly Fed. R. Civ. P. Supp.
C. The effort to create Fed. R. Civ. P. Supp.
G resulted from a desire to formulate a comprehensive rule governing civil forfeiture procedures, to consolidate those procedures in a single rule to the extent possible, and to avoid confusion with the admiralty and maritime procedures contained in Fed. R. Civ. P. Supp. A through F. USDC Admiralty & Maritime Local Rules - Revised December 1, 2009 ADMIR-1 2.