Federal civil practice
By: Stephen M. Donweber, Lecturer in Law And Senior Legal Information Librarian, Boston University School of Law
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781454868088
Subjects: United States; Civil procedure; United States. Supreme Court
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; title: The litigation timeline; title: Requisites of a federal cause of action; title: Preliminary considerations; title: Key details; title: The complaint; title: Commencing a civil action and service of the summons and complaint; title: Responding to the complaint; title: Other claims, other parties, and amending pleadings; title: Motion practice; title: Rule 26, the scope of discovery, and failure to make discovery; title: Methods of discovery; title: Electronic discovery; title: Summary judgment; title: Epilogue : litigating smart, Rule 16.