I s journey through the life of a lawsuit. Second, you will explore the basic issues of civil procedure, practical issues that lawyers encounter as they proceed through the phases of a civil lawsuit. You will come to view procedural rules as comprising a civil litigation system .
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For example, the right to a civil jury trial flows from the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To prepare for class, you must read the assigned materials carefully. When, during the course of your assigned reading, you encounter references to an F.R.C.P. or a federal statute or a constitutional provision, you are required, as part of your preparation for class, to look them up in your Yeazell supplement and read them carefully. Understanding Civil Procedure as a second required text. Note that, in the assigned readings for each week, I present the assigned Shreve reading first, followed by Yeazell.