Civil procedure
Subtitle: examples and explanations
By: Joseph W. Glannon.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Aspen Publishers; Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 722
Subjects: Civil procedure -- United States -- Cases; Civil procedure -- United States -- Problems, exercises, etc
Genres: Cases; Problems, exercises, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Personal jurisdiction: the enigma of minimum contacts; title: Statutory limits on personal jurisdiction: the reach and grasp of the long-arm; title: Seeking the home field advantage: challenges to personal jurisdiction; title: Federal questions and federal cases: jurisdiction over cases "arising under" federal law; title: Diversity jurisdiction: when does multiplicity constitute diversity?; title: Personal and subject matter jurisdiction compared: the first two rings; title: Second guessing the plaintiff's choice of forum: removal; title: Proper venue in federal courts: a rough measure of convenience; title: Choosing a proper court: the three rings reconsidered; title: Easy Erie: the law of rome and athens; title: Eerie Erie: the substance/substance distinction; title: Erie and state choice of law: vertical uniformity and horizontal chaos; title: Sculpting the lawsuit: the basic rules of joinder; title: Into the labyrinth: joinder of parties under rule 14; title: Essentials and interlopers: joinder of parties under rules 19 and 25; title: Jurisdictional fellow travelers: supplemental jurisdiction; title: Jurisdiction vs. joinder: the difference between power and permission; title: The bearer of bad tidings: service of process in the federal courts; title: Getting off easy: the motion to dismiss; title: When justice so requires: amendments to pleadings under the federal rules; title: The scope of discovery: the rules giveth, and the rules taketh away; title: Tools of the trade: the basic methods of discovery; title: Defective allegation or insufficient proof: dismissal for failure to state a claim compared to summary judgment; title: The judge and the jury, part one: judgment as a matter of law (directed verdict); title: The judge and the jury, part two: whose case is this, anyway?; title: Res judicata: the limits of procedural liberality; title: Res judicata and the rules of joinder: when does may mean must?; title: Collateral estoppel: fine-tuning the preclusion doctrine; title: The obscure kingdom: nonmutual collateral estoppel; title: An introduction to the pretrial litigation process: setting the stage for the schulansky case; title: First moves: schulansky goes to court; title: A change of forum: ronan removes to federal court; title: The defendants' perspective: ronan's answer and counterclaim; title: Chain reaction: Ronan brings in Jones; title: Preliminary objections: Jones seeks a way out.