Part I begins with what the proposed rules sought to accomplish and how they foreshadowed issues, such as jurisdiction, the scope of discovery, and class actions, that have been with us ever since. Contemporary events, notably the rise of the Civil Rights Movement and the persecution in the McCarthy Era, put these proposed amendments in perspective. Part II then discusses the reasons for rejecting the proposed rules and dismissing the Advisory Committee. These came about because the Advisory Committee threatened to become a standing committee of continuing revision without effective oversight by the Supreme Court. Part III turns to what the participants in these decisions could not have known: what came next in the rulemaking process and how it interacted with the flood of legislation and judicial decisions that greatly expanded the scope of private litigation.

Citation
George Rutherglen, What Happened to the Framers of the Federal Rules? Generational Change and the Transformation of the Rulemaking Process, 42 Journal of Supreme Court History 193–201 (2017).