Publication Date: 1/18/2018
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 752
ISBNs:
Paperback: 9781454894025
Connected eBook: 9781454899075
Summary of Contents
Preface to Students
Acknowledgments
Special Notice
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 14
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
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
Table of Cases
Index