Examples & Explanations for Civil Procedure (Examples & Explanations Series) 8th Edition, (Ebook PDF)

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1454894024
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1454894025
• Author: Joseph W. Glannon

A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples & Explanations (E&E) series provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures. Each E&E offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis.

Table contents:

Part I Choosing a Proper Court

Chapter 1 Personal Jurisdiction: The Enigma of Minimum Contacts

Chapter 2 Statutory Limits on Personal Jurisdiction: The Reach and Grasp of the Long-Arm

Chapter 3 Seeking the Home Field Advantage: Challenges to Personal Jurisdiction

Chapter 4 Federal Questions and Federal Cases: Jurisdiction over Cases “Arising under” Federal Law

Chapter 5 Diversity Jurisdiction: When Does Multiplicity Constitute Diversity?

Chapter 6 Personal and Subject Matter Jurisdiction Compared: The First Two Rings

Chapter 7 Second-Guessing the Plaintiff’s Choice of Forum: Removal

Chapter 8 Proper Venue in Federal Courts: A Rough Measure of Convenience

Chapter 9 Choosing a Proper Court: The Three Rings Reconsidered

Part II State Law in Federal Courts

Chapter 10 Easy Erie: The Law of Rome and Athens

Chapter 11 Eerie Erie: The Substance/Substance Distinction

Chapter 12 Erie and State Choice of Law: Vertical Uniformity and Horizontal Chaos

Part III The Scope of the Action

Chapter 13 Sculpting the Lawsuit: The Basic Rules of Joinder

Chapter 14 Into the Labyrinth: Joinder of Parties under Rule

Chapter 15 Essentials and Interlopers: Joinder of Parties under Rules 19 and 24

Chapter 16 Jurisdictional Fellow Travelers: Supplemental Jurisdiction

Chapter 17 Jurisdiction vs. Joinder: The Difference Between Power and Permission 333

Part IV Steps in the Litigation Process

Chapter 18 The Bearer of Bad Tidings: Service of Process in the Federal Courts

Chapter 19 Getting Off Easy: The Motion to Dismiss

Chapter 20 When Justice So Requires: Amendments to Pleadings under the Federal Rules

Chapter 21 The Scope of Discovery: The Rules Giveth, and the Rules Taketh Away

Chapter 22 Tools of the Trade: The Basic Methods of Discovery

Chapter 23 Defective Allegation or Insufficient Proof? Dismissal for Failure to State a Claim Compared to Summary Judgment

Chapter 24 The Judge and the Jury, Part One: Judgment as a Matter of Law (Directed Verdict)

Chapter 25 The Judge and the Jury, Part Two: Whose Case Is This, Anyway?

Part V The Effect of the Judgment

Chapter 26 Res Judicata (Claim Preclusion): The Limits of Procedural Liberality

Chapter 27 Res Judicata and the Rules of Joinder: When Does May Mean Must? Chapter 28 Collateral Estoppel (Issue Preclusion): Fine-Tuning the Preclusion Doctrine

Chapter 29 The Obscure Kingdom: Nonmutual Collateral Estoppel

Part VI Thinking Procedurally: The Rules in Action

Chapter 30 An Introduction to the Pretrial Litigation Process: Setting the Stage for the Schulansky Case

Chapter 31 First Moves: Schulansky Goes to Court

Chapter 32 A Change of Forum: Ronan Removes to Federal Court

Chapter 33 The Defendants’ Perspective: Ronan’s Answer and Counterclaim

Chapter 34 Chain Reaction: Ronan Brings in Jones

Chapter 35 Preliminary Objections: Jones Seeks a Way Out