Examples and Explanations: Civil Procedure 7E / Edition 7

by Joseph W. Glannon

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454815488
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	02/15/2013
Series:	Examples & Explanations Series
Edition description:	Seventh Edition
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.60(d)

Table of Contents

Summary of Contents

Part I. Choosing a Proper Court

Ch. 1. Personal Jurisdiction: The Enigma of Minimum Contacts

Ch. 2. Statutory Limits on Personal Jurisdiction: The Reach and Grasp of the Long-Arm

Ch. 3. Seeking the Home Field Advantage: Challenges to Personal Jurisdiction

Ch. 4. Federal Questions and Federal Cases: Jurisdiction over Cases “Arising under” Federal Law

Ch. 5. Diversity Jurisdiction: When Does Multiplicity Constitute Diversity?

Ch. 6. Personal and Subject Matter Jurisdiction Compared: The First Two Rings

Ch. 7. Second Guessing the Plaintiff’s Choice of Forum: Removal

Ch. 8. Proper Venue in Federal Courts: A Rough Measure of Convenience

Ch. 9. Choosing a Proper Court: The Three Rings Reconsidered

Part II. State Law in Federal Courts

Ch. 10. Easy Erie: The Law of Rome and Athens

Ch. 11. Eerie Erie: The Substance/Substance Distinction

Ch. 12. Erie and State Choice of Law: Vertical Uniformity and Horizontal Chaos

Part III. The Scope of the Action

Ch. 13. Sculpting the Lawsuit: The Basic Rules of Joinder

Ch. 14. Into the Labyrinth: Joinder of Parties under Rule 14

Ch. 15. Essentials and Interlopers: Joinder of Parties under Rules 19 and 24

Ch. 16. Jurisdictional Fellow Travelers: Supplemental Jurisdiction

Ch. 17. Jurisdiction v. Joinder: The Difference between Power and Persuasion

Part IV. Steps in the Litigation Process

Ch. 18. The Bearer of Bad Tidings: Service of Process in the Federal Courts

Ch. 19. Getting Off Easy: The Motion to Dismiss

Ch. 20. When Justice so Requires: Amendments to Pleadings under the Federal Rules

Ch. 21. The Scope of Discovery: The Rules Giveth, and the Rules Taketh Away

Ch. 22. Tools of the Trade: The Basic Methods of Discovery

Ch. 23. Defective Allegation or Insufficient Proof?: Dismissal for Failure to State a Claim Compared to Summary Judgment

Ch. 24. The Judge and the Jury, Part One: Judgment as a Matter of Law (Directed Verdict)

Ch. 25. The Judge and the Jury, Part Two: Whose Case is This, Anyway?

Part V. The Effect of the Judgment

Ch. 26. Res Judicata: The Limits of Procedural Liberality

Ch. 27. Res Judicata and the Rules of Joinder: When Does May Mean Must?

Ch. 28. Collateral Estoppel: Fine-Tuning the Preclusion Doctrine

Ch. 29. The Obscure Kingdom: Nonmutual Collateral Estoppel

Part VI. Thinking Procedurally: The Rules in Action

Ch. 30. An Introduction to the Pretrial Litigation Process: Setting the Stage for the Schulansky Case

Ch. 31. First Moves: Schulansky Goes to Court

Ch. 32. A Change of Forum: Ronan Removes to Federal Court

Ch. 33 .The Defendants’ Perspective: Ronan’s Answer and Counterclaim

Ch. 34. Chain Reaction: Ronan Brings in Jones

Ch. 35. Preliminary Objections: Jones Seeks a Way Out