Civil Procedure: A Coursebook, Fifth Edition

Summary of Contents

Contents
Preface 
Book Features and Conventions
Acknowledgments 

Part I. Introduction 
Chapter 1 An Introduction to American Courts 
Chapter 2 A Description of the Litigation Process and Sources
of Procedural Law 

Part II. Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Chapter 3 Diversity Jurisdiction in the Federal Courts 
Chapter 4 Federal Question Jurisdiction
Chapter 5 Removal of Cases from State to Federal Court 

Part III. Personal Jurisdiction 
Chapter 6 The Evolution of Personal Jurisdiction 
Chapter 7 Specific In Personam Jurisdiction
Chapter 8 Other Constitutional Bases for Personal Jurisdiction
Chapter 9 Long Arm Statutes 
Chapter 10 The Constitutional Requirement of Notice and
Methods of Service of Process 

Part IV. Venue 
Chapter 11 Basic Venue: Statutory Allocation of Cases Within
a Court System 
Chapter 12 Challenges to Venue: Transfers and Dismissals 

Part V. Pleading 
Chapter 13 Basic Pleading 
Chapter 14 Responding to the Complaint (or Not?) 
Chapter 15 Care and Candor in Pleading 
Chapter 16 Amending Pleadings 

Part VI. Joinder and Supplemental Jurisdiction 
Chapter 17 Joinder of Claims and Parties 
Chapter 18 Complex Joinder: Intervention, Interpleader, and
Required Parties 
Chapter 19 Class Actions 
Chapter 20 Supplemental Jurisdiction in the Federal Courts 

Part VII. Discovery 
Chapter 21 Informal Investigation and the Scope of Discovery 
Chapter 22 Discovery Tools 
Chapter 23 Discovery Control and Abuse 

Part VIII. Choice of Law 
Chapter 24 State Law in Federal Courts: The Erie Doctrine 
Chapter 25 Substance and Procedure Under the Erie Doctrine 

Part IX. Trial and Pretrial
Chapter 26 Pretrial Case Management
Chapter 27 Dispositions Without Trial
Chapter 28 The Right to Jury Trial
Chapter 29 Judgment as a Matter of Law (Directed Verdict and JNOV) 
Chapter 30 Jury Instructions and Verdicts
Chapter 31 New Trial and Relief from Judgment 

Part X. After Final Judgment 
Chapter 32 Appeals
Chapter 33 Claim Preclusion 
Chapter 34 Issue Preclusion: Further Limits to Relitigation

Table of Cases 
Table of Statutes and Rules
Index