Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems

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These distinctive features make the book a refreshing alternative:
- written by the authors of the highly successful Examples & Explanations study guides for Constitutional Law
- introductions and transitional text are accessible, without being overly simplified
- innovative yet flexible organization, beginning with relatively easy, rules-based material and maintaining an essentially chrono-logical approach, from the filing of the suit through appeals and the effect of judgment, with more complex rules taught after the students develop an understanding of the interplay between the rules of procedure and litigation
- chapters can be taught in any order for maximum classroom flexibility
- more than 200 problems interspersed throughout the text
- lightly edited cases develop first-year students' doctrinal analysis skills
- narrative overview of Civil Procedure in the first chapter contains a hypothetical case that illustrates each of the major topics
- integrated approach to covering Alternative Dispute Resolution and Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- comprehensive Teacher's Manual explains the authors' approach, provides analysis of cases and answers to problems, gives extra guidance for topics students find difficult, includes diagrams and overheads, and suggests sample syllabi for different credit hours
The Second Edition addresses:
- rapid developments in personal jurisdiction and the Internet
- the new Class Action Fairness Act
- amendments to the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23
- Multiforum Jurisdiction Act of 2002 and other congressional acts involving federal jurisdiction
- significant changes to the Federal Rulesof Civil Procedure pertaining to pleadings and discovery, including the problem of retrieval of computer files
- new case law, including several procedure and subject matter jurisdiction cases recently decided by the Supreme Court