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Civil Procedure in a Nutshell
Rules of civil procedure govern everything that happens outside of criminal proceedings. This Nutshell provides a road map to navigating civil procedure rules and helps build a foundation for understanding the overall picture. Topics discussed jurisdiction, venue, and other court-selection issues; pleading, discovery, summary judgment, and other pretrial matters; adjudication, judgments, and appeals; multi-party/multi-claim proceedings, including class actions and multidistrict litigation; plus standing, the Erie doctrine, arbitration, and other important procedural issues. The new edition covers all the subjects dealt with in today's civil procedure courses, whether four or five or six hours in length.
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333 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 5, 2013
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October 16, 2018
This book tells it all, it’s like a professor talking to you. I now understand the law much better. Before you study the American Law, you have to read this book.
January 15, 2016
Every area of the law is interesting in its own way. American civil procedure is unique for his rules of discovery, adversarial nature, and federalism (state and federal law).
Even though the actual Federal Rule of Civil Procedure are fairly short, the application of the laws to a set of facts can easily be complicated. For example - what should be the citizenship of a corporation, for jurisdiction purposes, HQ or place of registration? Actually, Supreme Court has recently decided in 2010, 2011? that it is the HQ or nerve center, but these debates have been going on for some time now.
It's interesting to see how little has changed in the law from the 1970s to now, at least in certain areas of the law like civil procedure and contracts.
Even though the actual Federal Rule of Civil Procedure are fairly short, the application of the laws to a set of facts can easily be complicated. For example - what should be the citizenship of a corporation, for jurisdiction purposes, HQ or place of registration? Actually, Supreme Court has recently decided in 2010, 2011? that it is the HQ or nerve center, but these debates have been going on for some time now.
It's interesting to see how little has changed in the law from the 1970s to now, at least in certain areas of the law like civil procedure and contracts.
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