Civil procedure : examples and explanations

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• Preface to Students p. xiii
• Acknowledgments p. xv
• Special Notice p. xvii
• Part I Choosing a Proper Court
• Chapter 1 Personal Jurisdiction: The Enigma of Minimum Contacts p. 3
• Chapter 2 Statutory Limits on Personal Jurisdiction: The Reach and Grasp of the Long-Arm p. 27
• Chapter 3 Seeking the Home Field Advantage: Challenges to Personal Jurisdiction p. 47
• Chapter 4 Federal Questions and Federal Cases: Jurisdiction over Cases "Arising under" Federal Law p. 63
• Chapter 5 Diversity Jurisdiction: When Does Multiplicity Constitute Diversity? p. 89
• Chapter 6 Personal and Subject Matter Jurisdiction Compared: The First Two Rings p. 109
• Chapter 7 Second-Guessing the Plaintiff's Choice of Forum: Removal p. 123
• Chapter 8 Proper Venue in Federal Courts: A Rough Measure of Convenience p. 141
• Chapter 9 Choosing a Proper Court: The Three Rings Reconsidered p. 159
• Part II State Law in Federal Courts
• Chapter 10 Easy Erie: The Law of Rome and Athens p. 177
• Chapter 11 Eerie Erie: The Substance/Substance Distinction p. 201
• Chapter 12 Erie and State Choice of Law: Vertical Uniformity and Horizontal Chaos p. 229
• Part III The Scope of the Action
• Chapter 13 Sculpting the Lawsuit: The Basic Rules of Joinder p. 253
• Chapter 14 Into the Labyrinth: Joinder of Parties under Rule 14 p. 271
• Chapter 15 Essentials and Interlopers: Joinder of Parties under Rules 19 and 24 p. 285
• Chapter 16 Jurisdictional Fellow Travelers: Supplemental Jurisdiction p. 311
• Chapter 17 Jurisdiction vs. Joinder: The Difference Between Power and Permission p. 333
• Part IV Steps in the Litigation Process
• Chapter 18 The Bearer of Bad Tidings: Service of Process in the Federal Courts p. 347
• Chapter 19 Getting Off Easy: The Motion to Dismiss p. 369
• Chapter 20 When Justice So Requires: Amendments to Pleadings under the Federal Rules p. 385
• Chapter 21 The Scope of Discovery: The Rules Giveth, and the Rules Taketh Away p. 409
• Chapter 22 Tools of the Trade: The Basic Methods of Discovery p. 435
• Chapter 23 Defective Allegation or Insufficient Proof? Dismissal for Failure to State a Claim Compared to Summary Judgment p. 471
• Chapter 24 The Judge and the Jury, Part One: Judgment as a Matter of Law (Directed Verdict) p. 493
• Chapter 25 The Judge and the Jury, Part Two: Whose Case Is This, Anyway? p. 515
• Part V The Effect of the Judgment
• Chapter 26 Res Judicata (Claim Preclusion): The Limits of Procedural Liberality p. 539
• Chapter 27 Res Judicata and the Rules of Joinder: When Does May Mean Must? p. 559
• Chapter 28 Collateral Estoppel (Issue Preclusion): Fine-Tuning the Preclusion Doctrine p. 573
• Chapter 29 The Obscure Kingdom: Nonmutual Collateral Estoppel p. 591
• Part VI Thinking Procedurally: The Rules in Action
• Chapter 30 An Introduction to the Pretrial Litigation Process: Setting the Stage for the Schulansky Case p. 613
• Chapter 31 First Moves: Schulansky Goes to Court p. 625
• Chapter 32 A Change of Forum: Ronan Removes to Federal Court p. 647
• Chapter 33 The Defendants' Perspective: Ronan's Answer and Counterclaim p. 659
• Chapter 34 Chain Reaction: Ronan Brings in Jones p. 675
• Chapter 35 Preliminary Objections: Jones Seeks a Way Out p. 687
• Table of Cases p. 707
• Index p. 715