TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glannon,Joseph W.
AU  - Perlman,Andrew M.
AU  - Raven-Hansen,Peter
TI  - Civil procedure
SN  - 9780735597891
AV  - KF 8839 .G578 2011
U1  - 347.73/5 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Aspen Publishers
KW  - Civil procedure
KW  - United States
KW  - Local
KW  - Casebooks
N1  - Includes index; An introduction to American courts -- 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
ER  -