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Recommended by both students and professors, this best-selling paperback study aid is a lifeline for first year students taking a Civil Procedure course. Author Joseph Glannon brings his lively and entertaining style into this new edition along with a wealth of new material. This comprehensive yet hands-on study aid:- Covers all aspects of the first year Civil Procedure course including the difficult areas of res judicata, collateral estoppel, and personal and subject matter jurisdiction
- Presents accessible introductions and explanations
- Offers a proven pedagogy in the popular examples-and-explanations format--highly effective for learning and applying the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Gives examples that progress gradually from simple to challenging and build students’ confidence
- Has plenty of visual aids including diagrams, charts, and documents
- Covers Erie doctrine in a three-chapter section What’s new in the Fourth Edition?
- The latest revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- A new chapter on the federal question of subject matter jurisdiction
- Updated changes to the Rules concerning Discovery
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- 1. Personal Jurisdiction: The Enigma of Minimum Contacts
- 2. Statutory Limits on Personal Jurisdiction: The Reach and Grasp of the Long-Arm
- 3. Seeking the Home Field Advantage: Challenges to Personal Jurisdiction
- 4. Federal Questions and Federal Cases: Jurisdiction over Cases ?ÄúArising under?Äù Federal Law
- 5. Diversity Jurisdiction: When Does Multiplicity Constitute Diversity?
- 6. Personal and Subject Matter Jurisdiction Compared: The First Two Rings
- 7. Second-Guessing the Plaintiff's Choice of Forum: Removal
- 8. Proper Venue in Federal Courts: A Rough Measure Of Convenience
- 9. Choosing a Proper Court: The Three Rings Reconsidered
- 10. Easy Erie: The Law of Rome and Athens
- 11. Eerie Erie: The Substance/Substance Distinction
- 12. Erie and State Choice of Law: Vertical Uniformity and Horizontal Chaos
- 13. Sculpting the Lawsuit: The Basic Rules of Joinder
- 14. Into the Labyrinth: Joinder of Parties under Rule 14
- 15. Jurisdictional Fellow Travelers: Supplemental Jurisdiction
- 16. Jurisdiction vs. Joinder: The Difference between Power and Permission
- 17. The Bearer of Bad Tidings: Service of Process in the Federal Courts
- 18. Getting Off Easy: The Motion to Dismiss
- 19. The Scope of Discovery: The Rules Giveth, and the Rules Taketh Away
- 20. Tools of the Trade: The Basic Methods of Discovery
- 21. Defective Allegation or Insufficient Proof?: Dismissal for Failure to State a Claim Compared to Summary Judgment
- 22. The Judge and the Jury, Part One: Judgment as a Matter of Law (Directed Verdict)
- 23. The Judge and the Jury, Part Two: Whose Case Is This, Anyway?
- 24. Res Judicata: The Limits of Procedural Liberality
- 25. Res Judicata and the Rules of Joinder: When Does May Mean Must?
- 26. Collateral Estoppel: Fine-Tuning the Preclusion Doctrine
- 27. The Obscure Kingdom: Nonmutual Collateral Estoppel
- 28. An Introduction to the Pretrial Litigation Process: Setting the Stage for the Schulansky Case
- 29. First Moves: Schulansky Goes to Court
- 30. A Change of Forum: Ronan Removes to Federal Court
- 31. The Defendants' Perspective: Ronan's Answer and Counterclaim
- 32. Chain Reaction: Ronan Brings In Jones
- 33. Preliminary Objections: Jones Seeks a Way Out
- 34. A Tactical Dilemma: Ronan's Motion for Summary Judgment
