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"Civil procedure" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Personal jurisdiction : the enigma of minimum contacts
• 2- Statutory limits on personal jurisdiction : the reach and grasp of the long-arm
• 3- Seeking the home field advantage : challenges to personal jurisdiction
• 4- Federal questions and federal cases : jurisdiction over cases "arising under" federal law
• 5- Diversity jurisdiction : when does multiplicity constitute diversity?
• 6- Personal and subject matter jurisdiction compared : the first two rings
• 7- Second guessing the plaintiff's choice of forum : removal
• 8- Proper venue in federal courts : a rough measure of convenience
• 9- Choosing a proper court : the three rings reconsidered
• 10- Easy Erie : the law of Rome and Athens
• 11- Eerie Erie : the substance/substance distinction
• 12- Erie and state choice of law : vertical uniformity and horizontal chaos
• 13- Sculpting the lawsuit : the basic rules of joinder
• 14- Into the labyrinth : joinder of parties under rule 14
• 15- Essentials and interlopers : joinder of parties under rules 19 and 25
• 16- Jurisdictional fellow travelers : supplemental jurisdiction
• 17- Jurisdiction vs. joinder : the difference between power and permission
• 18- The bearer of bad tidings : service of process in the federal courts
• 19- Getting off easy : the motion to dismiss
• 20- When justice so requires : amendments to pleadings under the Federal Rules
• 21- The scope of discovery : the rules giveth, and the rules taketh away
• 22- Tools of the trade : the basic methods of discovery
• 23- Defective allegation or insufficient proof : dismissal for failure to state a claim compared to summary judgment
• 24- The judge and the jury, part one : judgment as a matter of law (directed verdict)
• 25- The judge and the jury, part two : whose case is this, anyway?
• 26- Res judicata : the limits of procedural liberality
• 27- Res judicata and the rules of joinder : when does may mean must?
• 28- Collateral estoppel : fine-tuning the preclusion doctrine
• 29- The obscure kingdom : nonmutual collateral estoppel
• 30- An introduction to the pretrial litigation process : setting the stage for the Schulansky case
• 31- First moves : Schulansky goes to court
• 32- A change of forum : Ronan removes to federal court
• 33- The defendants' perspective : Ronan's answer and counterclaim
• 34- Chain reaction : Ronan brings in Jones
• 35- Preliminary objections : Jones seeks a way out.

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