Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure: Learning Civil Procedure Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis (Glannon Guides Series)

Law school classroom lectures can leave you with a lot of questions. Glannon Guides can help you better understand your classroom lecture with straightforward explanations of tough concepts with hypos that help you understand their application. The Glannon Guide is your proven partner throughout the semester when you need a supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture. Here’s why you need to use Glannon Guides to help you better understand what is being taught in the classroom: It mirrors the classroom experience by teaching through explanation, interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application. Both correct and incorrect answers are explained; you learn why a solution does or does not work. Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations of complex legal concepts, often in a humorous style that makes material stick. Front Matter Editorial Advisors Title Page Copyright Page About Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. Dedication Contents Acknowledgments 1. A Very Short Introduction 2. Diversity Jurisdiction: The Basic Rules 3. Federal Claims and Federal Cases 4. Removal Jurisdiction: The Defendant Chooses the Forum 5. Personal Jurisdiction: Myth and Minimum Contact 6. More Personal Jurisdiction: General In Personam Jurisdiction and In Rem Jurisdiction 7. More than an Afterthought: Long-arm Statutes as a Limit on Personal Jurisdiction 8. Home and Away: Litigating Objections to the Court’s Jurisdiction 9. Due Process and Common Sense: Notice and Service of Process 10. Venue and Transfer: More Limits on the Place of Suit 11. State Law in Federal Courts: Basics of the Erie Doctrine 12. Two Ways to Run a Railroad: Substance and Procedure After York, Byrd, and Hanna 13. The Scope of the Action: Joinder of Claims and Parties Under the Federal Rules 14. Of Hooks and Nuclei: Supplemental Jurisdiction over State Law Claims 15. Sufficient Allegations: Pleading Under the Federal Rules 16. Change over Time: Amending the Pleadings Under Rule 15 17. Never Forget Rule 11: Representations to the Court 18. Technicalities, Technicalities: Pre-answer Motions Under the Federal Rules 19. Probing to the Limits: The Scope of Discovery Under the Federal Rules 20. The Basic Tools of Discovery in Federal Court 21. Dispositive Motions: Dismissal for Failure to State a Claim and Summary Judgment 22. Judgment as a Matter of Law in the Federal Courts 23. Second Time Around: The Grounds and Procedure for Motions for New Trial 24. The Quest for Finality: Claim Preclusion Under the Second Restatement of Judgments 25. Collateral Estoppel, Issue Preclusion, Whatever 26. Closing Closers: Some Practice Questions that Cross Jurisdictional Lines 27. Closing Openers: Some Looney Limericks Index