Civil Procedure I Final Exam Outline-1L year PDF

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Course outline of first year Civil Procedure. Good for final exam review or for adding onto during the semester....

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CIVIL PROCEDURE

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Contents CIVIL PROCEDURE.................................................................................................................... 1 VRINDA BHUTA.......................................................................................................................... 1 CIVIL PROCEDURE OUTLINE.................................................................................................... 6 PLEADINGS:............................................................................................................................... 6 STATING THE CLAIM.............................................................................................................. 6 Summons and Service.......................................................................................................... 6 Sequence:............................................................................................................................ 8 b.

Complaint:..................................................................................................................... 8

Notice Pleading v. Code Pleading......................................................................................... 9 Statements of Claim in the Alternative................................................................................ 10 Frivolous Lawsuits [Rule 11]............................................................................................... 10 1983 Amendment............................................................................................................... 10 1993 Amendment............................................................................................................... 10 PLEADING OF SPECIAL MATTERS......................................................................................11 Rule 9(b) Pleading Fraud or Mistake.................................................................................. 12 DIVIDING BURDEN OF ALLEGATION..................................................................................12 DEFENSES AND OBJECTIONS............................................................................................ 12 MANNER OF PRESENTING DEFENSES AND OBJECTIONS.............................................13 CONSOLIDATION AND WAIVER OF DEFENSES AND OBJECTIONS.................................14 DEFENSES PROPERLY RAISED BY ANSWER....................................................................14 REPLYING TO DEFENSES...................................................................................................16 COUNTERCLAIMS................................................................................................................ 16 Permissive Counterclaims.................................................................................................. 17 “Transaction or Occurrence”...............................................................................................17 Common transaction tests to see if counterclaim is compulsory:...........................................17 3.

Same Evidence Test.................................................................................................... 17

Logical relationship test...................................................................................................... 17 Responding to Counterclaim..............................................................................................18 Recoveries on Claim and Counterclaim..............................................................................18 AMENDING THE PLEADINGS..............................................................................................18 Amendments Before Trial................................................................................................... 18 Amendments At or After Trial..............................................................................................18 2

Blair Transaction Test Used to See if Plaintiff Can Amend Pleadings.................................19 DISCOVERY:.......................................................................................................................... 20 GENERAL RULES................................................................................................................. 20 1993 Amendment............................................................................................................... 21 Rule 26(a) – New Disclosure System.................................................................................21 Depositions Upon Oral Examination [Rule 30].......................................................................22 Process of oral deposition:................................................................................................. 22 Notice................................................................................................................................. 22 Place of deposition............................................................................................................. 22 Limits on questions asked..................................................................................................24 INTERROGATORIES TO PARTIES [RULE 33]......................................................................24 Production of Documents and Things [Rule 34]..................................................................26 PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EXAMINATIONS [RULE 35].........................................................26 SANCTIONS FOR FAILURE TO MAKE DISCOVERY [RULE 37]..........................................27 Supplementation of Responses..........................................................................................28 USE OF PRODUCTS OF DISCOVERY IN CT PROCEEDINGS [RULE 32]..........................29 rr.

Freed v. Erie Lackawanna Railway..............................................................................29

WORK PRODUCT................................................................................................................. 30 Rule 26(b)(3)...................................................................................................................... 30 Ordinary v. Opinion Work Product.......................................................................................32 Person’s Own Statements..................................................................................................33 Expert Witnesses [Rule 26(b)(4)]........................................................................................33 1993 Amendments.............................................................................................................. 34 PROTECTIVE ORDERS [RULE 26(C)]..................................................................................34 DEVICES FOR TERMINATING LITIGATION W/O TRIAL..........................................................35 Motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim – Rule 12(b)(6)..................................................35 Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings [Rule 12(c)]................................................................35 MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [RULE 56]...............................................................36 TRIAL:....................................................................................................................................... 40 THE JURY.......................................................................................................................... 40 Jury Selection..................................................................................................................... 41 ORDER AND METHODS OF PROOF................................................................................... 42 Burden of Proof.................................................................................................................. 42 3

Burden of Persuasion- matter for jury to decide with judge giving guidance.......................45 Order of proof..................................................................................................................... 46 MOTIONS AT CLOSE OF ALL THE EVIDENCE....................................................................47 Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law [Rule 50(a) & (b)].................................................47 Rebuttal and Rejoinder....................................................................................................... 47 Evidence Tests-.................................................................................................................. 48 Federal Standard................................................................................................................ 50 Substantial Evidence Test...................................................................................................50 SUBMISSION TO JURY AND RETURN OF VERDICT..........................................................50 Types of Verdicts................................................................................................................ 50 MOTIONS AFTER VERDICT................................................................................................. 51 Renewed Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law [Rule 50(b)].........................................51 Motion for a New Trial [Rule 59]..........................................................................................52 SELECTING A PROPER COURT: DIVISION B/W STATE AND FED COURT SYSTEMS.........52 GENERAL.............................................................................................................................. 52 JUDICIAL POWER OF THE STATES.....................................................................................53 JUDICIAL POWER OF THE UNITED STATES......................................................................53 Article III............................................................................................................................. 53 HOW CONGRESS HAS VESTED ORIGINAL JURISDICTION IN THE DISTRICT COURTS 54 Congressional Provisions to Classes of “Cases” or “Controversies”...................................54 FED QUESTION PROVISION................................................................................................55 THE DIVERSITY OF CITIZENSHIP PROVISION..................................................................56 Determining Citizenship......................................................................................................57 REMOVAL OF JUR OF THE DISTRICT CT...........................................................................59 POSSIBLE REVIEW BY THE SUPREME COURT OF STATE COURT ACTIONS.................59 WHAT LAW GOVERNS A PARTICULAR ACTION.................................................................60 w.

ERIE RAILROAD V. TOMPKINS.................................................................................60

NOTES FROM GLANNON AND CLASS...................................................................................62 Choice of Law........................................................................................................................ 62 e.

Outcome Determinative Test.......................................................................................63

FEDERAL DETERMINATION OF STATE...............................................................................64 STATE DETERMINATION OF STATE LAW...........................................................................65 Byrd’s Sensitive Balancing of Interest Test.........................................................................66 4

Problems with the Byrd test................................................................................................66 Recap: Erie Case’s main points............................................................................................. 66 FEDERAL RULES: HANNA v. PLUMER (U.S. 1965) FEDERAL RULES DON’T CONFLICT WITH THE ERIE DECISION. CAN FOLLOW THE RULES EVEN IF THE OUTCOME WILL BE CHANGED. AS LONG AS THE RULE APPLIES..............................................................66 STATE LAW v. FEDERAL RULE............................................................................................67 AUTHORITY TO ADJUDICATE................................................................................................. 70 SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, CONT.—SUPPLEMENTAL JURISDICTION............70 Federal Question................................................................................................................... 70 Pendent Claim Jurisdiction................................................................................................. 71 Ancillary Jurisdiction........................................................................................................... 72 Pendent Party Jurisdiction.................................................................................................. 73 Codification of Supplemental Jurisdiction...........................................................................74 TERRITORIAL AUTHORITY TO ADJUDICATE......................................................................75 In Personam Jurisdiction....................................................................................................76 Quasi In Rem Jurisdiction...................................................................................................77 JURISDICTION OVER PERSONS—THEORY IN EVOLUTION.........................................78 Presence as Basis for Jurisdiction......................................................................................78 Transient Jurisdiction.......................................................................................................... 78 Domicile as Basis for Jurisdiction.......................................................................................79 Consent as Basis for Jurisdiction........................................................................................79 Acts Done in State as Basis for Jurisdiction........................................................................80 Jurisdiction over Corporations............................................................................................ 82 International Shoe and Its Progeny (foundation case for territorial jur)...............................83 Convenience Test (McGee v. International Life Insurance Co., Supreme Court—1957).....84 Jurisdictional Statutes......................................................................................................... 85 SOME COMPLEX CASES................................................................................................. 86 1.

Jurisdiction by Necessity............................................................................................. 86

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Unilateral Activities of the Defendant Cannot Satisfy Minimum Contacts Requirements 87

3. All assertions of state court jurisdiction must meet test in International Shoe and its progeny.............................................................................................................................. 87 2.

Power Branch and Convenience Branch.....................................................................89

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Convenience Branch can overpower the Power Branch..............................................91 5

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Transient Jurisdiction Re-visited..................................................................................93

VENUE, TRANSFER OF VENUE AND FORUM NON CONVENIENS...............................95 Transfer.............................................................................................................................. 99 OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD....................................................................................... 100 b.

What’s the rule now for pre-judgment proceedings?..................................................102

THE CONTOURS OF LITIGATION..................................................................................104 FORMER ADJUDICATION................................................................................................... 104 Res Judicata (Claim Preclusion).......................................................................................104 Collateral Estoppel (Issue Preclusion)..............................................................................105 CLAIM PRECLUSION.......................................................................................................... 106 Modern Transactional Approach....................................................................................... 106 Counterclaim..................................................................................................................... 113 ISSUE PRECLUSION (COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL).............................................................114 EFFECTS ON PERSONS NOT PARTIES............................................................................121 Persons Bound by Prior Judgment................................................................................... 121 Indemnity.......................................................................................................................... 121

CIVIL PROCEDURE OUTLINE Note: include Twombly and Iqbal and make sure fed rules line up Put pg numbers w/ the topics and the cases out of casebook

Glannon and Quimbee (cases) and BB Mark the Rules w/ stickies in both the big rules book and the condensed one Make sure rules match

PLEADINGS: STATING THE CLAIM a. Pleadings serve the function of giving notice to the opposing parties. i. “[a]n elementary and fundamental requirement of due process in any proceeding which is to be accorded finality is notice reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections.” Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306, 314 (1950).

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Summons and Service ii. The requirement of notice is fulfilled through the court’s issuance (and the plaintiff’s service upon the defendant) of a document called a “summons”, along with a copy of the complaint. iii. “summons”: a document that “summons” the defendant to come to court and defend the lawsuit, or risk losing by way of default judgment (see Rule 4 and 4a)

iv. Once the summons is properly served, 2 things happen: 1. (1) Defendant has the proper notice of the lawsuit; 2. (2) Ct can reach out and assert jurisdiction over the lawsuit and over the person of the defendant. v. Pl shows proper service was made by filing an affidavit indicating that proper service was made (failure to prove service does not affect validity of service) vi. The person actually serving the summons must meet 2 requirements: 1. They must be at least 18 years old. 2. They must not be a party to the lawsuit. (A party’s attorney is not considered a “party.” Thus, the plaintiff may not serve the summons and complaint herself. Rather. she must find someone else to do it for her. vii. Federal Rule 4(c)(1)--general requirements: 1. First, “[a] summons must be served with a copy of the complaint. The plaintiff is responsible for having the summons and complaint served within the time allowed by Rule 4(m)….” 2. Rule 4(m) gives the plaintiff 90 days after the filing of the complaint to serve the summons, with extensions for good cause shown. Otherwise, if service is not timely, the Court must either dismiss the case as against the particular defendant who was not timely served, or order the plaintiff to make service within a specific time. Interestingly, Rule 4(m) does not apply to service in a foreign country. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m). viii. Plaintiff’s options when serving summons: first option—follow state law 1. the plaintiff will only be able to pick from among (at the very most)...