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Civil procedure : a coursebook
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- Creator
- Joseph W. Glannon (Professor of Law Suffolk University), Andrew M. Perlman (Dean and Professor of Law Suffolk University), Peter Raven-Hansen (Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law George Washington University)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Third edition
- New York : Wolters Kluwer, [2017]
- ©2017
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xxxii, 1320 pages ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781454881421, 1454881429
- OCLC
- ocn964661281
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- An introduction to American courts -- A description of the litigation process and sources of procedural law -- Diversity jurisdiction in the Federal courts -- Federal question jurisdiction -- Removal of cases from State to Federal court -- The evolution of personal jurisdiction -- Specific in Personam jurisdiction -- Other Constitutional bases for personal jurisdiction -- Long arm statutes -- The Constitutional requirement of notice and methods of service of process -- Basic venue : statutory allocation of cases within a court system -- Challenges to venue : transfers and dismissals -- Basic pleading -- Responding to the complaint (or Not?) -- Care and candor in pleading -- Amending pleadings -- Joinder of claims and parties -- Complex joinder : intervention, interpleader, and required parties -- Class actions -- Supplemental jurisdiction in the Federal courts -- Informal investigation and the scope of discovery -- Discovery tools -- Discovery control and abuse -- State law in Federal Courts : the Erie Doctrine -- Substance and procedure under the Erie Doctrine -- Pretrial case management -- Dispositions without trial -- The right to jury trial -- Judgment as a matter of law (Directed verdict and JNOV) -- Controlling the jury -- New trial and relief from judgment -- Appeals -- Claim preclusion -- Issue preclusion : further limits to relitigation