Civil Procedure Stories
Civil Procedure Stories

Author: Kevin M. Clermont

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 9781599413471

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This book is a collaborative effort by fourteen law-school professors to provide a deeper understanding of the great civil procedure cases. The professors each wrote a short chapter on one of the cases, retelling the cases in their own voice and by their own method. Each chapter has a fairly consistent structure, with separate sections on: social and legal background of the case; factual background of the case; lower court proceedings in the case; final appellate disposition, including issues, decisions, reasons, and separate opinions; factual postscript to the case; immediate impact of the case on the development of the law (why the case is famous and when it became so); and continuing importance of the case today (why it is still a leading case).The accompanying website, http://civprostories.law.cornell.edu, serves as a research tool for students, academics, and practitioners. The poste

A Guide to Civil Procedure
A Guide to Civil Procedure

Author: Brooke Coleman

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1479805939

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"This book represents our efforts, and the efforts of our contributors, to center questions of inequality in the teaching, learning, and practice of civil procedure by shining a light on the ways in which civil procedure may privilege-or silence-voices in our courts"--

Constitutional Law Stories
Constitutional Law Stories

Author: Michael C. Dorf

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13:

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Dorf's Constitutional Law Stories provides a student with an understanding of 15 leading U.S. constitutional law cases. It focuses on how lawyers, judges, and socioeconomic factors shaped the litigation, and why the cases have attained landmark status. This book is suitable for adoption as a supplement in an introductory constitutional law course or as a text for an advanced seminar.

A Civil Action
A Civil Action

Author: Jonathan Harr

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-08-10

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 030780478X

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The true story of one man so determined to take down two of the nation's largest corporations accused of killing children from water contamination that he risks losing everything. "The legal thriller of the decade." —Cleveland Plain Dealer Described as “a page-turner filled with greed, duplicity, heartache, and bare-knuckle legal brinksmanship" by The New York Times, A Civil Action is the searing, compelling tale of a legal system gone awry—one in which greed and power fight an unending struggle against justice. Yet it is also the story of how one man can ultimately make a difference. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes to win millions of dollars and ends up nearly losing everything, including his sanity. With an unstoppable narrative power reminiscent of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, A Civil Action is an unforgettable reading experience that will leave the reader both shocked and enlightened. A Civil Action was made into a movie starring John Travolta and Robert Duvall.

Torts Stories
Torts Stories

Author: Robert L. Rabin

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781587785030

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This publication provides a student with an understanding of ten leading torts cases, focusing on how the litigation was shaped by lawyers, judges and socioeconomic factors, and why the cases have attained landmark status. It is suitable for adoption as a supplement in a first-year torts course, or as a text for an advanced seminar.

Real Law Stories
Real Law Stories

Author: Richard A. Brisbin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199733590

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This collection describes the day-to-day functions of lawyers, courts, and the law in personal injury, divorce, employment relations, real estate, and commercial practice; criminal justice; and the appellate process. The authors contribute insights into the legal process in the United States across a range of legal activities.

Civil Procedure Stories
Civil Procedure Stories

Author: Kevin M. Clermont

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13:

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This study aid provides a deeper understanding of the great civil procedure cases. Fourteen professors each wrote a short chapter on one of the cases, retelling the cases in their own voice and by their own method. Each chapter has separate sections containing the social and legal background of the case, factual background, lower court proceedings, final appellate disposition, issues, decisions, reasons, separate opinions, factual postscript to the case, why the case is famous and when it became so, and why it is still a leading case.

Rebooting Justice
Rebooting Justice

Author: Benjamin H. Barton

Publisher: Encounter Books

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1594039348

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America is a nation founded on justice and the rule of law. But our laws are too complex, and legal advice too expensive, for poor and even middle-class Americans to get help and vindicate their rights. Criminal defendants facing jail time may receive an appointed lawyer who is juggling hundreds of cases and immediately urges them to plead guilty. Civil litigants are even worse off; usually, they get no help at all navigating the maze of technical procedures and rules. The same is true of those seeking legal advice, like planning a will or negotiating an employment contract. Rebooting Justice presents a novel response to longstanding problems. The answer is to use technology and procedural innovation to simplify and change the process itself. In the civil and criminal courts where ordinary Americans appear the most, we should streamline complex procedures and assume that parties will not have a lawyer, rather than the other way around. We need a cheaper, simpler, faster justice system to control costs. We cannot untie the Gordian knot by adding more strands of rope; we need to cut it, to simplify it.

Aspen Treatise for Civil Procedure
Aspen Treatise for Civil Procedure

Author: Richard D. Freer

Publisher: Aspen Publishing

Published: 2021-12-09

Total Pages: 1040

ISBN-13: 1543839010

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Popular casebook author and bar review lecturer Richard Freer makes the complex principles of civil procedure accessible for students and practitioners in this treatise. Filled with hundreds of examples, the book integrates legal doctrine with factual analysis. The book breaks the doctrines of civil procedure into easy-to-understand components, and then brings them together to show how they form a comprehensive body of law. As stated by one procedure scholar, this book “is a key reference not only for students, but also for any lawyer or scholar looking for a starting point to their research on procedure and jurisdiction. The latest edition is always on my bookshelf.” New to the 5th Edition: The Supreme Court’s most recent decision on specific personal jurisdiction, Ford Motor Company, and how it flows from the Court’s restriction of general personal jurisdiction Detailed analysis of all recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Emerging law on class actions, including justiciability, ascertainability, cy pres, and issue certification Detailed treatment of remedies, including provisional remedies The Court’s 2020 recognition of “defense preclusion” Professors and students will benefit from: “Defining the Issue,” a section that opens each chapter, putting material into context and making connections to related areas of procedure and jurisdiction law Analytical frameworks to synthesize key subject areas