Questions & answers : Civil procedure : multiple choice and short answer questions and answers

This study guide uses over 200 multiple-choice and short-answer questions to test your students' knowledge of the nature and operation of the rules that govern procedure in the federal courts in the United States. Each multiple-choice question is accompanied by a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question (designed to be answered in no more than fifteen minutes) is followed by a thoughtful, yet brief, model answer. Q & A: Civil Procedure also includes a comprehensive topical index. Pleadings : plaintiff's pleadings Pleadings : defendant's pleadings Pleadings : heightened specificit Amended pleadings Joinder of claims Permissive joinder of parties Compulsory joinder of parties Interpleader Intervention Joinder of additional parties Counterclaims & cross-claims Class actions Discovery : automatic initial disclosures Discovery : scope of discovery and discovery relevance Discovery : work product Discovery : attorney-client privilege Discovery : expert witnesses Discovery devices Discovery : electronically-stored information Discovery sanctions Summary judgment : summary judgment burdens Summary judgment : the burdens applied Right to jury trial Burdens of proof at trial : motions for judgment as a matter of law Motions for new trial & Rule 60(b) motions Subject matter jurisdiction : diversity of citizenship Subject matter jurisdiction : amount in controversy Subject matter jurisdiction : federal questions Subject matter jurisdiction : supplemental jurisdiction Subject matter jurisdiction : computing supplemental jurisdiction & the Class Action Fairness Act Subject matter jurisdiction : removal Territorial jurisdiction : vocabulary Consent, status, domicile, & transient jurisdiction In personam jurisdiction : overview Specific jurisdiction General jurisdiction Personal jurisdiction : procedural issues Venue generally Change of venue Forum non conveniens Claim preclusion Issue preclusion Persons bound by prior adjudication The law of the case doctrine Choice of law State law in federal court (the Erie Doctrine) Appellate jurisdiction Appellate procedure.