Civil Procedure: Constitution, Statutes, Rules, and Supplemental Materials, 2026

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Allan Ides
Christopher N. May
Simona Grossi

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2026-09-16

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Civil Procedure: Constitution, Statutes, Rules, and Supplemental Materials, 2026, by Allan Ides, Christopher N. May, and Simona Grossi of Loyola Law School, is the annual Civil Procedure supplement pairing the current Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and selected statutes with recent Supreme Court decisions—including Berk v. Choy on the Erie doctrine—for use with the authors’ casebook, Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, Sixth Edition.

This supplement combines two objectives: first, it covers the cases decided in the 2022-2025 Supreme Court terms; and second, it provides important statutory material related to the casebook chapters.

New to the 2026 Edition:

Berk v. Choy, 607 U.S. ___ (2026), the Court’s unanimous decision holding that state affidavit-of-merit requirements conflict with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8 and therefore do not apply in federal court—a significant new precedent on the Erie doctrine and the displacement effect of the Federal Rules
Supreme Court cases updated through the close of the Supreme Court’s October 2025 Term
Federal Rules and Statutes current through the December 1, 2025 amendments, including new Rule 16.1 governing multidistrict litigation and amended Rules 16 and 26

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About the authors

Allan Ides

Allan Ides graduated summa cum laude from Loyola Law School in 1979. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1979-80 and then clerked for the Honorable Byron R. White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1980-81. Professor Ides joined the Loyola Law School faculty in the fall of 1982 and served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1984-87. From 1989-97, Professor Ides was a member of the law school faculty at Washington Lee in Lexington, Virginia. He returned to Los Angeles and to Loyola in Fall 1997. He has written extensively in the areas of Constitutional Law and Civil Procedure and is actively involved in various public service projects, ranging from civil rights litigation to the representation of individuals in deportation proceedings.

Christopher N. May

Christopher May is a 1968 graduate of the Yale Law School where he was on the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, he served as director of research for the National Institution for Education in Law and Poverty in Chicago. He then worked for three years as a staff attorney with the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, where he engaged in both service work and law reform litigation. He joined the Loyola Law School faculty in 1973 where he taught Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, a Supreme Court Seminar, and various poverty law courses, while also and serving as associate dean from 1975-1979. His scholarship includes In the Name of War: Judicial Review and the War Powers Since 1918 (Harvard University Press, 1989), winner if the 1989 Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award, and Presidential Defiance of “Unconstitutional” Laws: Reviving the Royal Prerogative (Greenwood Press, 1998). He served for many years on the board of directors of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, was an advisory committee member for the California Small Claims Court Experimental Project, and has engaged in a wide range of pro bono work over the years.

Simona Grossi

Simona Grossi is a professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where she has been teaching since 2010. Professor Grossi graduated from L.U.I.S.S. University, Rome, Italy in 2002. She completed her master's degree (LL.M.) and doctoral program (J.S.D.) at UC Berkeley, School of Law. She worked for the U.N. from 2000 to 2002 and then went into private practice and worked for Clifford Chance LLP and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo doing national and transnational litigation from 2002 to 2008. She worked for Judge Charles Breyer at the USDC for the Northern District of California in 2010. She was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in 2011, and is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL). Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure and federal courts. Professor Grossi is currently Chair-elect of the AALS Executive Committee for the Section on Civil Procedure and has been appointed as Chair of the same Section for the year 2016.

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2026-09-16

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2025

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