Civil Procedure: A Coursebook / Edition 3

by Joseph W. Glannon, Andrew M. Perlman, Peter Raven-Hansen

Overview

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Civil Procedure: A Coursebook offers students doctrinal clarity without sacrificing analytical rigor or glossing over ambiguities. The book’s accessibility, organization, and interior design support its innovative pedagogy making it the ideal text for any civil procedure course.

New to the Fourth Edition:

• New case treatment of personal jurisdiction in the Internet context.
• New cases and materials for affirmative defenses (qualified immunity), class certification (stop and frisk policy), summary judgment (police shooting/qualified immunity), and issue preclusion (official misconduct), helping students connect procedure to current social issues.
• New case treatment of proportionality in discovery.

Professors and student will benefit from:

• Nearly all questions asked are answered in the book
• Each chapter includes mini table of contents at beginning and summary of fundamentals at end
• Each case prefaced by accessible introduction
• Interior design and graphics support innovative pedagogy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454889038
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	04/13/2017
Series:	Aspen Casebook Series
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	1320
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.00(h) x 2.00(d)

Table of Contents

PART ONE: CHOOSING A PROPER COURT
• 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: The Removal
• Proper Venue in Federal Courts: A Rough Measure of Convenience
• Choosing a Proper Court: The Three Rings Reconsidered

PART TWO: STATE LAW IN FEDERAL COURTS
• 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

PART THREE: THE SCOPE OF THE ACTION
• Sculpting the Lawsuit: The Basic Rules of Joinder
• Into the Labyrinth: Joinder of Parties under Rule
• Jurisdictional Fellow Travelers: Supplemental Jurisdiction
• Jurisdiction vs. Joinder: The Difference between Power and Permission

PART FOUR: STEPS IN THE LITIGATION PROCESS
• The Bearer of Bad Tidings: Service of Process in the Federal Court
• Getting Off Easy: The Motion to Dismiss
• The Scope of Discovery: The Rules Giveth, and the Rules Taketh Away
• Tools of the Trade: Basic Methods of Discovery
• Defective Allegation ofInsufficient 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?

PART FIVE: THE EFFECT OF THE JUDGMENT
• Res Judica: The Limits of Procedural Liberality
• Res Judica and the Rules of Joinder: When Does May mean Must?
• Collateral Estoppel: Fine-Tuning the Preclusion Doctrine
• The Obscure Kingdom: Nonmutual Collateral Estoppel

PART SIX: THINKING PROCEDURALLY: THE RULES IN ACTION
• 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 Defendant's Perspective: Ronan's Answer and Counterclaim
• Chain Reaction: Ronan Brings in Jones
• Preliminary Objections: Jones Seeks a Way Out
• Tactical Dilemma: Ronan's Motion for Summary Judgment