The GLannon Guide to Civil Procedure

Contents

• A very short introduction

• Diversity jurisdiction : the basic rules

• Federal claims and federal cases

• Removal jurisdiction : the defendant chooses the forum

• Personal jurisdiction : myth and minimum contact

• More personal jurisdiction : general in personam jurisdiction and in rem jurisdiction

• More than an afterthought : long-arm statutes as a limit on personal jurisdiction

• Home and away : litigating objections to the court's jurisdiction

• Due process and common sense : notice and service of process

• Venue and transfer : more limits on the place of suit

• State law in federal courts : basics of the Erie Doctrine

• Two ways to run a railroad : substance and procedure after York, Byrd, and Hanna

• The scope of the action : joinder of claims and parties under the federal rules

• Of hooks and nuclei : supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims

• Sufficient allegations : pleading under the federal rules

• Change over time : amending the pleadings under rule

• Never forget rule 11 : representations to the court

• Technicalities, technicalities : pre-answer motions under the federal rules

• Probing to the limits : the scope of discovery under the federal rules

• The basic tools of discovery in federal court

• Dispositive motions : dismissal for failure to state a claim and summary judgment

• Judgment as a matter of law in the federal courts

• Second time around : the grounds and procedure for motions for new trial

• The quest for finality : claim preclusion under the second restatement of judgments

• Collateral estoppel, issue preclusion, whatever

• Closing closers : some practice questions that cross jurisdictional lines

• Closing openers : some looney limericks.