Civil procedure : examples and explanations

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Law Library — 2nd Floor Collection (2nd floor)

Call Number
KF8840 .G58 2008
Status
Available

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Summary

Glannon's reputation is secure as the best-selling author of Civil Procedure E&E, Torts E&E, and The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure, the first book in the series. His uniquely entertaining style teaches and engages students in all aspects of the first-year Civil Procedure course including the difficult areas of res judicata, collateral estoppel, and personal and subject matter jurisdiction. Accessible introductions and explanations combine with a proven pedagogy in the popular examples-and-explanations format that is effective for learning and applying the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Examples progress gradually from simple to challenging to build students' confidence, and plenty of visual aids (diagrams, charts, and documents) help them remember. The Seventh Edition incorporates changes to the venue and removal statutes and addresses the Supreme Court's recent personal jurisdiction decisions: Goodyear DunlopTires Operations, S.A. v. Brown and J. McIntyre Machinery Ltd. v. Nicastro. Other revisions reflect the Supreme Court's decision in Hertz Corp. v. Friend on the meaning of "principal place of business" and summary judgment in light of amendments to FRCP 56.

Contents

  • Part 1 Choosing a Proper Court
  • Chapter 1 Personal Jurisdiction: The Enigma of Minimum Contacts
  • Chapter 2 Statutory Limits on Personal Jurisdiction: The Reach and Grasp of the Long-Arm
  • Chapter 3 Seeking the Home Field Advantage: Challenges to Personal Jurisdiction
  • Chapter 4 Federal Questions and Federal Cases: Jurisdiction over Cases "Arising under" Federal Law
  • Chapter 5 Diversity Jurisdiction: When Does Multiplicity Constitute Diversity?
  • Chapter 6 Personal and Subject Matter Jurisdiction Compared: The First Two Rings
  • Chapter 7 Second Guessing the Plaintiff's Choice of Forum: Removal
  • Chapter 8 Proper Venue in Federal Courts: A Rough Measure of Convenience
  • Chapter 9 Choosing a Proper Court: The Three Rings Reconsidered
  • Part 2 State Law In Federal Courts
  • Chapter 10 Easy Erie: The Law of Rome and Athens
  • Chapter 11 Eerie Erie: The Substance/Substance Distinction
  • Chapter 12 Erie and State Choice of Law: Vertical Uniformity and Horizontal Chaos
  • Part 3 The Scope Of The Action
  • Chapter 13 Sculpting the Lawsuit: The Basic Rules of Joinder
  • Chapter 14 Into the Labyrinth: Joinder of Parties under Rule 14
  • Chapter 15 Essentials and Interlopers: Joinder of Parties under Rules 19 and 24
  • Chapter 16 Jurisdictional Fellow Travelers: Supplemental Jurisdiction
  • Chapter 17 Jurisdiction v. Joinder: The Difference between Power and Persuasion
  • Part 4 Steps In The Litigation Process
  • Chapter 18 The Bearer of Bad Tidings: Service of Process in the Federal Courts
  • Chapter 19 Getting Off Easy: The Motion to Dismiss
  • Chapter 20 When Justice so Requires: Amendments to Pleadings under the Federal Rules
  • Chapter 21 The Scope of Discovery: The Rules Giveth, and the Rules Taketh Away
  • Chapter 22 Tools of the Trade: The Basic Methods of Discovery
  • Chapter 23 Defective Allegation or Insufficient Proof?: Dismissal for Failure to State a Claim Compared to Summary Judgment
  • Chapter 24 The Judge and the Jury
  • Part 1 Judgment as a Matter of Law (Directed Verdict)
  • Chapter 25 The Judge and the Jury
  • Part 2 Whose Case Is This, Anyway?
  • Part 5 The Effect of the Judgment
  • Chapter 26 Res Judicata: The Limits of Procedural Liberality
  • Chapter 27 Res Judicata and the Rules of Joinder: When Does May Mean Must?
  • Chapter 28 Collateral Estoppel: Fine-Tuning the Preclusion Doctrine
  • Chapter 29 The Obscure Kingdom: Nonmutual Collateral Estoppel
  • Part 6 Thinking Procedurally: The Rules in Action
  • Chapter 30 An Introduction to the Pretrial Litigation Process: Setting the Stage for the Schulansky Case
  • Chapter 31 First Moves: Schulansky Goes to Court
  • Chapter 32 A Change of Forum: Ronan Removes to Federal Court
  • Chapter 33 The Defendants' Perspective: Ronan's Answer and Counterclaim
  • Chapter 34 Chain Reaction: Ronan Brings in Jones
  • Chapter 35 Preliminary Objections: Jones Seeks a Way Out
  • Index

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