Syllabus for
Civil Procedure
Fall
2014
Notes:
1) This syllabus is provisional only! Some changes may be made throughout the
semester. Make sure that you are looking at the most current version of the
syllabus (e.g. by refreshing your browser).
2) You
should make use of the links to the specific Federal Rules and statutory and
constitutional provisions that are provided in this syllabus when reading
these materials for class, because these links give you an edited
version that excludes unrelated and unassigned material.
I. Introduction
"Overview
of a Civil Suit"
II. Initiating a Lawsuit
1. Drafting a Complaint
Fed. R. Civ. P. 1, 2, 8(a),
10(a)-(b)
Form 11 (.pdf)
Field & Kaplan (F&K) 34-46
[do questions 2, 4-9; stop where "Statements of Claim in the
Alternative" begins]
Twombly Complaint (just to pass your eyes over, do not read)
Study Questions
2. Pleading Fraud
Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b)
Study Questions
3. Rule 11
Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(d), 11
F&K 46-50 [do question 10-12]
Study Questions
4. Filing, Service
Fed. R. Civ. P. 3; 4(a)-(b);
4(c)(1); 4(c)(2); 4(e); 4(h); 4(l)-(m); 77(a)
Form 3 (.pdf)
Glannon Ch. 18 [EXCEPT pp. 351-55, that
is, sections entitled "Relation of Service of Process to Personal
Jurisdiction" and "Federal 'Long-Arm Statute' in Rule 4") [do
Examples 1-10, 11a, 12a, 13a, & 14a in Ch. 18 of Glannon.]
U.S. Const. Amend. V
& U.S. Const. Amend. XIV § 1
F&K 678-81
Study Questions
III. The Pleading Period
1. Defenses: Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction
a. Federal Question
U.S. Const. Art. III, § 2, cl. 1;
28 U.S.C. § 1331
F&K 231-36 [do
questions 1-3 and 7] [do not read footnote a on p. 232]
F&K 247 [do question 18]
F&K 432-434 [do question
6]
Recommended: Glannon
63-73
Study Questions
b. Diversity
U.S. Const. Art. III, § 2, cl.
1; 28 U.S.C. § 1332
28 U.S.C. §1332(c)(1)
F&K 236-244
[do all questions]
Study Questions
Study Questions
F&K 475-479
[start at Rose v. Giamatti]
Study Questions
Glannon 89-94 &
Questions 1-11
c. Removal
28 U.S.C. § 1441(a)-(b), (f)
28 U.S.C. § 1446(a)-(d)
F&K 244-246 [do all
questions]
F&K 479-480 [do
questions 26-27]
Glannon Ch. 7 [do all
Examples]
Study Questions
d. Diversity: The Amount in
Controversy.
F&K 469-471
[do question 18]
Glannon 96-99 [do Examples
12 and 13]
Study Questions
2. Defenses: Lack of Personal Jurisdiction
a. Personal Jurisdiction in State Court
i. The Pennoyer
Framework
NOTE: We will not read Pennoyer - instead, I will have you read some
sections of the First Restatement of the Conflict of Laws discussing
the Pennoyer framework. Note that the First Restatement articulates what state law on personal jurisdiction generally was at the time of Pennoyer up to International Shoe. This may differ from what state courts may constitutionally do under the Pennoyer framework. The constitutional restrictions on state court under the Pennoyer
will be further discussed in class. I have also included the Second
Restatement's discussion of the distinction between in personam, in
rem, and quasi in rem.
Second Restatement on In Personam, In Rem and Quasi In Rem
U.S. Const. Amend. XIV § 1 and Art IV, § 1; 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Study Questions
ii. Elaborating the
Pennoyer Framework
F&K
513-14 [stop right before section entitled "Federal Actions under 28 USC §
1655"]
F&K
517-18 [section entitled "Jurisdictional Amount" - do questions 6-8]
F&K
518-21 [start at "Presence as Basis for Jurisdiction"; end right
before "Grace v. MacArthur"] [do question 9]
F&K
522-25 [Start at "Fraud and Force" don't do Hess] [do questions
11, 13, 14, 17-19]
F&K
530-33 [ "Appearance as Defendant"; don't do Hess] [do not do
questions]
Study Questions
iii. The International
Shoe Framework
F&K 535-546 (start at "Foreign Corporations: Background of the International Shoe Case")
Study Questions
iv. General
Jurisdiction
F&K
548-552 [do question 31]
Goodyear Dunlop Tires
Operations, S.A. v. Brown, No. 10–76 (June 27, 2011)
Daimler AG v. Bauman, No. 11-965 (January 14, 2014)
v. Specific
Jurisdiction
F&K
552-555 [stop at Modern Jurisdictional Statutes] [do question 32]
Study Questions
vi. Specific
Jurisdiction: Products Moved
by Consumers
F&K 598-609
vii.
Specific
Jurisdiction: Stream-of-Commerce
F&K
614-15
Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of California, 480 U.S. 102 (1987)
J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, No. 09-1343 (June 27, 2011)
Study Questions
viii. Specific
Jurisdiction: Intentional Torts
Walden v. Fiore, No. 12-574 (February 25, 2014)
xi. Are
Quasi-In-Rem Actions Still Viable?
F&K 582-595 [do question 41]
x. Is Tagging
Still Viable?
F&K
615-18
F&K
521 [Grace v. MacArthur only]
xi. Review of Personal
Jurisdiction
No other
study questions
b. Personal Jurisdiction in
Federal Court
Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(k)
U.S. Const. Amend. V
Glannon 113-14; Glannon
352-55
Study Questions
3. Defenses: Lack of Venue
28 U.S.C. § 1391(a)-(d)
Recommended: Glannon Ch. 8 [all
Examples]
Study Questions
4. Distinguishing Personal Jurisdiction, Venue and
Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Glannon Ch. 9 [do all Examples]
Recommended: Glannon 109-113 [and all
Examples for Ch. 6]
No study questions other than those in
Glannon
5. Answers, Pre-Answer Motions, Defenses, Waiver of Defenses
Fed.
R. Civ. P. 7; 8(b)-(d); 12(a)(1)-(2), (4); 12(b); 12(e)-(f); 55(a)
F&K 51-52 [section entitled
"Types of defenses and objections"] [do questions 14 & 16]
F&K 61-62 [section entitled
"Replying to Defenses"] [do questions 24-25]
Glannon Ch. 19 [do all questions]
Study Questions
6. Amending
Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a), 15(c), (d)
F&K 68-75 [do question 34, 39 and 40]
Glannon pp. 385-93 [do Examples 1-11]
Study Questions
7. Joinder and Complex Litigation
a. Compulsory Joinder of Actions/Claim Preclusion
F&K 702-12 [do all questions]
Study Questions
F&K 717-24 [do all questions, including
questions (3)-(5)]
F&K 734-35 [sections entitled
"On the Merits" and "Restatement (Second) of Judgments"; do
question 19]
Recommended: Glannon Chs. 26-27
Study Questions
b. Counterclaims
Fed. R. Civ. P. 13(a)-(c)
F&K 62-68 [do questions 26,
31-33]
F&K 529-530 [Adam v. Saenger only]
[do questions 25 and 26]
Study Questions
c. Joinder of Parties and Claims
Fed. R. Civ. P. 13(g)-(h);
14(a)-(b); 18(a); 20(a)
Glannon Chs. 13 & 14 [do all
Examples]
Intersection of the Joinder
Rules with Personal Jurisdiction and Venue
Study Questions
d. Necessary Parties
Fed. R. Civ. P. 19(a)-(b)
Glannon 283-90 [do questions 1-6]
Study Questions
e. Intervention
Fed. R. Civ. P. 24(a)-(b)
Glannon 290-95 [do questions 7-13]
Study Questions
f. Pendent/Ancillary/Supplemental Jurisdiction
U.S. Const. Art. III, § 2,
cl. 1
Distinguishing Pendent
and Ancillary Jurisdiction
28 U.S.C. § 1367
Glannon Ch. 16 [do all
questions] [NOTE: The second paragraph in the answer to Question 8 in
the new edition of Glannon (on p. 326) is wrong.]
Study Questions
g. Removal and 1441(c)
28 USC 1441(c)
Study Questions
8. Issue Preclusion
a. Introduction to Issue Preclusion
F&K 745-756 [do questions 2-4,
6-12, 16-17]
Recommended: Glannon Ch. 28
Study Questions
b. Exceptions to Issue Preclusion
F&K 759-760 [Moser case only]
F&K 768 (2d Rest.)
Study Questions
c. Privity
F&K 771-72 (don't do section on
2d Restatement)
Study Questions
d. The Mutuality Requirement
F&K 778-780 [do question
4]
Study Questions
e. Nonmutual Issue Preclusion - Bernhard
F&K 781-786 [do questions 5-8,
10]
Study Questions
f. Nonmutual Issue Preclusion in the Federal Courts:
Parklane Hosiery
F&K 789-793
Recommended: Glannon Ch. 29
1. Disclosure/Discovery
F&K 75-79 [stop at section
entitled "Depositions upon oral examination"; do questions]
Glannon 435-63 [do Examples 1-17]
Study Questions
2. Limits on Discovery/Sanctions
Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b); 26(g)
F&K 94-95 [section entitled
"Sanctions for failure to make disclosures or to cooperate in
discovery"] [don't do questions]
Glannon Ch. 21 [do all questions]
Study Questions
3. Terminating Litigation Early/Summary Judgment
Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c)-(d),
56
F&K 127-130 [do questions 81-83,
85]
V. Trials, Judgments, Enforcement of Judgments
1. Verdicts, Directed Verdicts and Judgments N.O.V.
F&K 202-09 [do question 38-41]
No study questions.
2. Judgments, Enforcement of Judgments
F&K 221-223 [do question 5 only]
No study questions.
VI. The Erie Doctrine
1. Swift v. Tyson & Erie Railroad v.
Tompkins
I will talk you through this. We will not have time to read Erie itself.
2. Federal Courts' Determination of State Law
Glannon 187-88 [do Examples 6-9]
Study Questions
3. Erie and "Procedure"
U.S. Const. Art. I, § 8, cls.
9 & 18; U.S. Const. Art. III, § 1; 28 U.S.C. § 2072
F&K 345 ["Burden of Proof
in Diversity Actions"]
F&K 363-67, 373-386 [do questions 10-11]
Study Questions
4. Federal Procedural Common Law After Hanna
F&K 389-92 [Walker];
825-29 [Semtek]
Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b)
Study Questions
5. Horizontal (State-State) Choice of Law in Federal
Court
F&K 345-47
Study Questions
6. Shady Grove