Civil procedure : a coursebook /
"Casebook for law students in the civil procedure course"--
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| Main Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wolters Kluwer,
[2021]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
| Series: | Aspen casebook series.
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to American courts
- A description of the litigation process and sources of procedural law
- Diversity jurisdiction in the Federal courts
- Federal question jurisdiction
- Removal of cases from State to Federal court
- The evolution of personal jurisdiction
- Specific in Personam jurisdiction
- Other Constitutional bases for personal jurisdiction
- Long arm statutes
- The Constitutional requirement of notice and methods of service of process
- Basic venue : statutory allocation of cases within a court system
- Challenges to venue : transfers and dismissals
- Basic pleading
- Responding to the complaint (or Not?)
- Care and candor in pleading
- Amending pleadings
- Joinder of claims and parties
- Complex joinder : intervention, interpleader, and required parties
- Class actions
- Supplemental jurisdiction in the Federal courts
- Informal investigation and the scope of discovery
- Discovery tools
- Discovery control and abuse
- State law in Federal Courts : the Erie Doctrine
- Substance and procedure under the Erie Doctrine
- Pretrial case management
- Dispositions without trial
- The right to jury trial
- Judgment as a matter of law (Directed verdict and JNOV)
- Controlling the jury
- New trial and relief from judgment
- Appeals
- Claim preclusion
- Issue preclusion : further limits to relitigation.