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The Glannon guide to civil procedure : learning civil procedure through multiple-choice questions and analysis
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- Creator
- Joseph W. Glannon
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- New York : Aspen Publishers, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xi, 536 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780735579545, 0735579547
- OCLC
- ocn298541344
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- A very short introduction -- Diversity jurisdiction : the basic rules -- Federal claims and federal cases -- Removal jurisdiction : the defendant chooses the forum -- Personal jurisdiction : myth and minimum contact -- More personal jurisdiction : general in personam jurisdiction and in rem jurisdiction -- More than an afterthought : long-arm statutes as a limit on personal jurisdiction -- Home and away : litigating objections to the court's jurisdiction -- Due process and common sense : notice and service of process -- Venue and transfer : more limits on the place of suit -- State law in federal courts : basics of the Erie doctrine -- Two ways to run a railroad : substance and procedure after York, Byrd, and Hanna -- The scope of the action : joinder of claims and parties under the federal rules -- Of hooks and nuclei : supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims -- Sufficient allegations : pleading under the federal rules -- Change over time : amending the pleadings under Rule 15 -- Technicalities, technicalities : pre-answer motions under the federal rules -- Probing to the limits : the scope of discovery under the federal rules -- The basic tools of discovery in federal court -- Dispositive motions : dismissal for failure to state a claim and summary judgment -- Judgment as a matter of law in the federal courts -- Second time around : the grounds and procedure for motions for new trial -- The quest for finality : claim preclusion under the second restatement of judgments -- Collateral estoppel, issue preclusion, whatever -- Closing closers : some practice questions that cross jurisdictional lines -- Closing openers : some looney limericks