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Civil Procedure Fall 2014
(First published Jun 2014)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1: Introduction
- 2.3: Service of Process
- 3: Preliminaries 1: Constitutional Foundations of Adjudication, Notice and Opportunity to be Heard
- 4: Preliminaries 2: Subject Matter Jurisdiction
- 5: Preliminaries 3: Personal Jurisdiction
- 6: Preliminaries 4: Venue, Transfer of Venue, Removal, Forum Non Conveniens
- 7: Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim, More Pleadings, and Other FRCP 12 Motions
- 8: Expanding the Lawsuit: Joinder of Claims and Parties, and Amendments
- 9.1.1: Introduction to Choice of Law, Vertical and Horizontal
- 9.2: What Law to Apply in Federal Courts (aka “The Erie Problem” or “Vertical Choice of Law”)
- 9.3: The Basics of Horizontal Choice of Law
- 9.4: Erie, Moving Cases, and Choice of Law
- 11: Summary Judgment
- 12: Introduction to Trial
- 13: Post-Trial Motions
- 14: Appeal
- 15: Former Adjudication: Claim and Issue Preclusion
- 16.1: Class Actions
- 16.3: Alternative Dispute Resolution
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Civil Procedure 2021
(First published Mar 2021)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1.1: Welcome to Civil Procedure
- 1.2: An Introduction to the Theory Side of Civil Procedure
- 1.3.1: FRCP 10(a)
- 1.3.3: Rules of Procedure and Evidence; Power to Prescribe
- 1.4: Introduction to Theories of Adjudication
- 2: Basics of Pleading and Rule 11
- 3.1: More Legal Theory on the Role of Adjudication
- 3.3.2.1: FRCP 64
- 3.4.1: FRCP 65(a)(1), (b), (c), (d)
- 4.1: Diagram, Basics of SMJ
- 4.3.1.1: Mini-Lecture: Introduction to Diversity SMJ (13 mins)
- 4.3.1.2: Diversity of Citizenship
- 4.3.1.3: Joined Parties
- 4.4.1.2: Mini-Lecture: Introduction to Federal Question SMJ (9 mins)
- 4.4.1.3: U.S. Constitution, Article III, § 2
- 4.4.2.1: Federal Question
- 4.5.1.2: Summary Note on Aldinger, Owen Equipment, and Finley
- 4.5.1.3: Aldinger v. Howard
- 4.5.1.4: Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger
- 4.5.1.5: Finley v. United States
- 4.5.2.1: Supplemental Jurisdiction
- 5.2: Diagram, Basics of PJ
- 5.3.3: Mini-Lecture: Pennoyer to International Shoe (22 mins)
- 5.4.2: Gray v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
- 5.5.1: Mini-Lecture: General In Personam Personal Jurisdiction (25 mins)
- 5.5.3: [OPTIONAL] Daimler AG v. Bauman
- 5.6.1: Unilateral Action and Purposeful Availment
- 5.6.2: Contracts and Effects Test
- 5.6.3: Stream of Commerce
- 5.6.4.1: Bristol Myers Squibb Co v. Superior Court of California
- 5.6.4.2: Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Circuit Court
- 5.7.1: FRCP 4(k)
- 5.7.2: Note on Long Arms in Federal Court
- 5.8.1: Note on Personal Jurisdiction & the Internet
- 5.8.2: [OPTIONAL] Zippo Manufacturing Co. v. Zippo Dot Com
- 5.9.2.3: Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute
- 6.1.1: Venue generally
- 6.1.2: Venue in Patents and Copyrights
- 6.2.1: Change of Venue
- 6.2.2: Cure or Waiver of Defects
- 6.2.3: Transfer to Cure Want of Jurisdiction
- 6.3.1: Removal of Civil Actions
- 6.3.2: Procedure for Removal of Civil Actions
- 6.3.3: Procedure After Removal generally
- 7.1.1: FRCP 9
- 7.2.2.1: FRCP 8
- 7.2.2.2: FRCP 12(b)(6)
- 7.2.2.3: FRCP 84: Forms 11 & 15
- 7.2.3.7: Interview with Richard Clary on Motions to Dismiss, Corporate Defendants, and the Impacts of Twombly and Iqbal (18 mins)
- 7.2.3.10: [OPTIONAL] Swanson v. Citibank
- 7.3.1: FRCP 12(c)-(f)
- 7.4.1: FRCP 12(g)-(h)
- 8.2: Claim Joinder
- 8.3.1: FRCP 20
- 8.3.4: Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc.
- 8.4.1: FRCP 19
- 8.4.2: Cheat Sheet on Compulsory Party Joinder
- 8.5.1: FRCP 13(a)-(c), (e), (h), (i)
- 8.6.1: FRCP 13(g), (h), (i)
- 8.7.1: FRCP 14
- 8.8.2: FRCP 24
- 8.9.1: FRCP 22
- 8.9.2: Interpleader
- 8.9.3: Interpleader
- 8.9.4: Process and Procedure
- 8.9.5: Cheat Sheet on Interpleader
- 8.10.1: FRCP 15
- 9: What Law To Apply? Vertical (Erie) and Horizontal Choice of Law
- 10: Discovery
- 11.1.3: FRCP 56
- 11.2.1: Introduction to Summary Judgment: The 1986 Trilogy
- 11.3: A Recent Example: Elsayed v. Maserati North America, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2016)
- 12.1.1: Background to Jury Trials
- 12.1.2: FRCP 38
- 12.1.3: FRCP 39
- 12.3.1: Selection and Composition of the Jury
- 12.3.5: J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel T.B.
- 12.4.1: Note on Taking the Case from the Jury: Motions for Judgment as a Matter of Law
- 12.4.2: FRCP 50
- 13.1.1: FRCP 50
- 13.1.3: FRCP 50 Traps
- 13.2.1: FRCP 50(c)-(e)
- 13.2.2: FRCP 59
- 13.3.2: Powers v. Allstate Insurance
- 13.4.1: FRCP 60(a)-(c)
- 13.4.2: Freer, Motions for Relief from Judgment
- 14.1.1: Final Decisions of District Courts
- 14.1.2: Interlocutory Decisions
- 14.1.3: Note on the Final Judgment Rule
- 14.2.3: More on the Collateral Order Doctrine
- 14.3.1: [OPTIONAL] Aditya Bamzai, The Origins of Judicial Deference to Executive Interpretation
- 14.4.1: Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP) 4(a)
- 15.1.4: Claim Preclusion, Dicta, and Stare Decisis
- 15.2.1.2: Cromwell v. County of Sac
- 15.2.1.3: More on the "Actually Litigated" Requirement
- 15.2.2.1: Traditional Mutuality and Indemnification
- 15.2.2.2: Bernhard v. Bank of America
- 15.2.2.3: Blonder-Tongue Laboratories Inc. v. University of Ill. Foundation
- 15.2.2.4: Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore
- 15.2.2.5: Offensive vs. Defensive Collateral Estoppel
- 16.1.2.1: FRCP 23(a), (b), (c)
- 16.1.3.1.2: FRCP 23(e)–(h)
- 16.1.3.2.1: Diversity of Citizenship; Amount in Controversy; Costs
- 16.1.3.2.2: Removal of Class Actions
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Civil Procedure 2022
(First published Aug 2022)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
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