Gilbert Outline: Civil Procedure

Description

Topics Covered: Territorial (Personal) Jurisdiction (including Venue and Forum Non Conveniens); Subject Matter Jurisdiction (covering Diversity Jurisdiction, Federal Question Jurisdiction); Erie Doctrine and Federal Common Law; Pleadings (including Counterclaims, Cross-Claims, Supplemental Pleadings); Parties (including Joinder and Class Actions); Discovery (including Devices, Scope, Sanctions and Discovery Conferences); Summary Judgment; Pretrial Conference and Settlements; Trial (including Right to Jury Trial, Motions, Jury Instruction and Arguments, and Post-Verdict Motions); Appeals; Claim Preclusion (Legal research and legal writing Judicata) and Issue Preclusion (Collateral Estoppel). Includes 1999 Supplement. The casebook correlation chart includes the following casebooks: Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials by Cound, Friedenthal, Miller and Sexton; Materials for a Basic Course in Civil Procedure by Field, Kaplan and Clermont; Pleading and Procedure Cases and Materials by Hazard, Tait and Fletcher; Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach by Marcus, Redish and Sherman; Elements of Civil Procedure Cases and Materials by Rosenberg, Smit and Dreyfus; and Civil Procedure by Yeazell, Landers and Martin.