Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure: Learning Civil Procedure Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis / Edition 4

by Joseph W. Glannon

Overview

Law school classroom lectures can leave you with a lot of questions.

Glannon Guides can help you better understand your classroom lecture with straightforward explanations of tough concepts with hypos that help you understand their application.

The Glannon Guide is your proven partner throughout the semester when you need a supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture. Here’s why you need to use Glannon Guides to help you better understand what is being taught in the classroom:

• It mirrors the classroom experience by teaching through explanation, interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application.
• Both correct and incorrect answers are explained; you learn why a solution does or does not work. 
  • Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations of complex legal concepts, often in a humorous style that makes material stick.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543804843
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	09/19/2018
Series:	Glannon Guides Series
Edition description:	Fourth Edition, New Edition
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.17(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

1 A Very Short Introduction 1

2 Diversity Jurisdiction: The Basic Rules 3

3 Federal Claims and Federal Cases 27

4 Removal Jurisdiction: The Defendant Chooses the Forum 53

5 Personal Jurisdiction: Myth and Minimum Contact 71

6 More Personal Jurisdiction: General In Personam Jurisdiction and In Rem Jurisdiction 97

7 More than an Afterthought: Long-arm Statutes as a Limit on Personal Jurisdiction 117

8 Home and Away: Litigating Objections to the Court's Jurisdiction 137

9 Due Process and Common Sense: Notice and Service of Process 157

10 Venue and Transfer: More Limits on the Place of Suit 179

11 State Law in Federal Courts: Basics of the Erie Doctrine 201

12 Two Ways to Run a Railroad: Substance and Procedure After York, Byrd, and Hanna 221

13 The Scope of the Action: Joinder of Claims and Parties Under the Federal Rules 241

14 Of Hooks and Nuclei: Supplemental Jurisdiction over State Law Claims 261

15 Sufficient Allegations: Pleading Under the Federal Rules 285

16 Change over Time: Amending the Pleadings Under Rule 15 309

17 Never Forget Rule 11: Representations to the Court 331

18 Technicalities, Technicalities: Pre-answer Motions Under the Federal Rules 347

19 Probing to the Limits: The Scope of Discovery Under the Federal Rules 365

20 The Basic Tools of Discovery in Federal Court 389

21 Dispositive Motions: Dismissal for Failure to State a Claim and Summary Judgment 413

22 Judgment as a Matter of Law in the Federal Courts 435

23 Second Time Around: The Grounds and Procedure for Motions for New Trial 457

24 The Quest for Finality: Claim Preclusion Under the Second Restatement of Judgments 479

25 Collateral Estoppel, Issue Preclusion, Whatever 499

26 Closing Closers: Some Practice Questions that Cross Jurisdictional Lines 521

27 Closing Openers: Some Looney Limericks 539

Index 549