The Sixth Edition includes new landmark cases and reflects recent changes in procedural rules and practice. While essentially a traditional casebook organized along the lines of the events in a lawsuit, this new edition of Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure retains the unique features that have made prior editions a success, including:  ""Chapter Summary Problems"" - optional comprehensive problems requiring the student to ""put the chapter together"" and apply to the problems the material addressed in the chapter   ""Improving the System"" sections challenging students to think more deeply about cutting-edge issues   Litigation documents showing actual litigation sequences, including the motion for summary judgment in Jones v. Clinton and excerpts from the jury selection, the court's charge, and the final arguments in Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc.    ""How to Read This Case"" notes precede particularly difficult cases   Traditional federal materials are supplemented with an introduction to differing practices of three benchmark states: California and Texas   A chapter devoted to Alternative Dispute Resolution methods  Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure is supplemented annually. A comprehensive Teacher's Manual is available to professors.

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure (Loose-Leaf version)

David Crump

Rex R. Perschbacher

Debra Lyn Bassett

William V. Dorsaneo, III

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LexisNexis

This coursebook explores both the practical and substantive aspects of Texas civil pre-trial litigation. The materials cover all aspects of the processing of a civil case up to the period immediately before trial. It addresses such issues as: •  The attorney's relationship with the client (when to take a case, forming the contract, Interviewing and counseling the client); •  When to file the suit (statutes of limitation and other pre-filing requirements); •  Protecting the right to recover (emergency relief such as TROs, sequestration, garnishment, and attachment); •  Deciding where to file the case (subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, and venue); •  Defining and shaping the case (pleading practices, joinder, and preclusion doctrines); •  Obtaining relevant Information (scope of discovery and discovery devices); and •  Non-trial resolutions (default, summary judgment, settlement, and alternative dispute resolution).  All of the chapters have been updated to include new cases and changes in rules and statutes. In addition to cases and supplemental notes, Texas Civil Procedure: Pre-Trial Litigation includes sample pleadings and other documents to help students understand and apply the procedural rules. The text also includes thirty new sets of Practice Exerciseshypothetical problems that walk students through the application of the rules in increasingly complex situations. Professors adopting the book will be provided with suggested answers to the Practice Exercises. New softcover editions of this book will be issued each year.

Texas Civil Procedure: Pre-Trial Litigation

Elizabeth G. Thornburg

Elaine A. Carlson

This book introduces students to trial preparation, motion practice, jury selection, the trial process, preparation of the jury charge, jury argument, jury deliberations, verdict, instructed verdicts, judgments, and post-trial motions. The text also devotes a chapter to the special problems of non-jury trials. The authors have expanded their coverage of the difficult issue of finality of judgments, and included thorough treatment of original and appellate proceedings in the courts of appeal and in the Texas Supreme Court. New softcover editions of this book will be issued each year.

Texas Civil Procedure: Trial and Appellate Practice

This annual supplement to Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure contains updates to the casebook, as well as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure with Forms, Selected Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Supreme Court Rules, and Federal Rules of Evidence. Part 3 includes selected provisions of the United States Code.

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure, 2012 Supplement

This book introduces students to trial preparation, motion practice, jury selection, the trial process, preparation of the jury charge, jury argument, jury deliberations, verdict, instructed verdicts, judgments, and post-trial motions. The text also devotes a chapter to the special problems of non-jury trials. The authors have expanded their coverage of the difficult issue of finality of judgments, and included thorough treatment of original and appellate proceedings in the courts of appeal and in the Texas Supreme Court.

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure (2004 Supplement)

Rules & Procedures

Questions & Answers: Civil Procedure (Multiple Choice and Short Answers Questions and Answers, First

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure: 2006 Supplement

Lexis&Nexis

The Fifth Edition includes new landmark cases and reflects recent changes in procedural rules and practice. While essentially a traditional casebook organized along the lines of the events in a lawsuit, this new edition of Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure retains the unique features that have made prior editions a success, including:
 <li>"Chapter Summary Problems" - optional comprehensive problems requiring the student to "put the chapter together" and apply to the problems the material addressed in the chapter</li>
 <li>"Improving the System" sections challenging students to think more deeply about cutting-edge issues</li>
 <li>Litigation documents showing actual litigation sequences, including the motion for summary judgment in Jones v. Clinton and excerpts from the jury selection, the court's charge, and the final arguments in Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc.
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 <li>"How to Read This Case" notes precede particularly difficult cases</li>
 <li>Traditional federal materials are supplemented with an introduction to differing practices of three benchmark states: California, New York, and Texas</li>
 <li>A chapter devoted to Alternative Dispute Resolution methods</li>
 New or revised materials include:
 <li>A new section on personal jurisdiction by electronic contacts covering the Internet and e-commerce</li>
 <li>Revised disclosure and discovery coverage to reflect up-to-date rules</li>
 <li>New service of process materials that reflect the decisional effects of rules changes</li>
 <li>Reorganized coverage of Rule 11 and sanctions to facilitate comparison of previous practice to the effects of current rules</li>
 <li>Updated coverage of pretrial conferences and case management issues</li>
 <li>The Supreme Court's decision in Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Co., clarifying the standard for granting judgment as a matter of law</li>

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure

This study guide uses over 200 multiple-choice and short-answer questions to test your students' knowledge of the nature and operation of the rules that govern procedure in the federal courts in the United States. Each multiple-choice question is accompanied by a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question (designed to be answered in no more than fifteen minutes) is followed by a thoughtful, yet brief, model answer. Q &amp; A: Civil Procedure also includes a comprehensive topical index.

Questions & Answers: Civil Procedure

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Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure (Loose-Leaf version)

Texas Civil Procedure: Pre-Trial Litigation

Texas Civil Procedure: Trial and Appellate Practice

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure, 2012 Supplement

Texas Civil Procedure: Trial and Appellate Practice

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure (2004 Supplement)

Questions & Answers: Civil Procedure (Multiple Choice and Short Answers Questions and Answers, First

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure: 2006 Supplement

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure

Questions & Answers: Civil Procedure