Civil procedure /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business,
2013.
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
| Series: | Examples & explanations
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Table of Contents:
- Personal jurisdiction : the enigma of minimum contacts
- Statutory limits on personal jurisdiction : the reach and grasp of the long-arm
- Seeking the home field advantage : challenges to personal jurisdiction
- Federal questions and federal cases : jurisdiction over cases "arising under" federal law
- Diversity jurisdiction : when does multiplicity constitute diversity?
- Personal and subject matter jurisdiction compared : the first two rings
- Second guessing the plaintiff's choice of forum : removal
- Proper venue in federal courts : a rough measure of convenience
- Choosing a proper court : the three rings reconsidered
- Easy Erie : the law of Rome and Athens
- Eerie Erie : the substance/substance distinction
- Erie and state choice of law : vertical uniformity and horizontal chaos
- Sculpting the lawsuit : the basic rules of joinder
- Into the labyrinth : joinder of parties under rule 14
- Essentials and interlopers : joinder of parties under rules 19 and 25
- Jurisdictional fellow travelers : supplemental jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction vs. joinder : the difference between power and permission
- The bearer of bad tidings : service of process in the federal courts
- Getting off easy : the motion to dismiss
- When justice so requires : amendments to pleadings under the Federal Rules
- The scope of discovery : the rules giveth, and the rules taketh away
- Tools of the trade : the basic methods of discovery
- Defective allegation or insufficient proof : dismissal for failure to state a claim compared to summary judgment
- The judge and the jury, part one : judgment as a matter of law (directed verdict)
- The judge and the jury, part two : whose case is this, anyway?
- Res judicata : the limits of procedural liberality
- Res judicata and the rules of joinder : when does may mean must?
- Collateral estoppel : fine-tuning the preclusion doctrine
- The obscure kingdom : nonmutual collateral estoppel
- An introduction to the pretrial litigation process : setting the stage for the Schulansky case
- First moves : Schulansky goes to court
- A change of forum : Ronan removes to federal court
- The defendants' perspective : Ronan's answer and counterclaim
- Chain reaction : Ronan brings in Jones
- Preliminary objections : Jones seeks a way out.