Questions & answers : civil procedure : multiple choice and short answer questions and answers

This study guide uses over 300 multiple-choice and short-answer questions to test your students' knowledge of the nature and operation of the rules that govern procedure in the federal courts in the United States. Each multiple-choice question is accompanied by a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question (designed to be answered in no more than fifteen minutes) is followed by a thoughtful, yet brief, model answer. Q & A: Civil Procedure also includes a comprehensive topical index.

Pleadings : plaintiff's pleadings -- Pleadings : defendant's pleadings -- Pleadings : heightened specificity -- Amended pleadings -- Joinder of claims -- Permissive joinder of parties -- Compulsory joinder of parties -- Interpleader -- Intervention -- Joinder of additional parties -- Counterclaims & cross-claims -- Class actions -- Discovery : automatic initial disclosures -- Discovery : scope of discovery & discovery relevance -- Discovery : work product -- Discovery : attorney-client privilege -- Discovery : expert witnesses -- Discovery devices -- Discovery : electronically stored information -- Discovery sanctions -- Involuntary dismissals and default judgments -- Summary judgment : summary judgment burdens -- Summary judgment : the burdens applied -- Right to jury trial -- Selection and composition of juries -- Jury instructions : form and objections -- Burdens of proof at trial ; prima facie case and presumptions -- Motions for judgment as a matter of law ; standard and scope of review -- Bench trials ; findings of fact and conclusions of law -- Motions for new trial & Rule 60(b) motions -- Subject matter jurisdiction : diversity of citizenship -- Subject matter jurisdiction : amount in controversy -- Subject matter jurisdiction : federal questions -- Subject matter jurisdiction : supplemental jurisdiction -- Subject matter jurisdiction : comparing supplemental jurisdiction & the Class Action Fairness Act -- Subject matter jurisdiction : removal -- Territorial jurisdiction : vocabulary -- Consent, status, domicile, & transient jurisdiction -- In personam jurisdiction : overview -- Specific jurisdiction -- General jurisdiction -- Personal jurisdiction : procedural issues -- Service of process -- Venue generally -- Change of venue -- Venue, forum non conveniens, and procedural issues -- Claim preclusion -- Issue preclusion -- No mutual issue preclusion -- The law of the case doctrine -- State law in federal court : overview -- State law in federal court (the Erie Doctrine) -- Federal common law -- Appellate jurisdiction -- Appellate procedure.