Description: Four Credits. Analysis of a federal civil action from commencement through trial including consideration of the respective roles of judge and lawyers; subject-matter and personal jurisdiction, venue, pleading, motions, discovery and joinder of parties and of claims; trial; judgments; and post-trial motions; and choice of law in the federal courts.
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Please remember that our review session will be this Friday, April 18,
from 2-3:50 in the Bailey Courtroom.I will also be in my office tomorrow, Thursday, April 17, 2008,
from Noon until 3:30 with extended office hours.
Required Class Materials: Marcus, Redish and Sherman's Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach, 4th Ed. (West 2005); West's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—2007-2008 Educational Edition, Amendments Received to May 21, 2007 (with the purple cover).
Reading Assignments are now posted in the Assignments and Notes section.
Also, please take note that I have changed my office hours on Wednesdays from 4-5:30 to 2:00-3:30 p.m., which I believe will be a more convenient time for students.
The practical project has bee posted. [Click Here to See it]
The documents are DUE ON OR BEFORE TUESDAY MARCH 27, 2007.
This year you will all draft a complaint, but you will also include in parenthesis after each allegation paragraph what you believe the defense will answer to your complaint.
All the html documents with class notes, as well as all supplementary files (mostly graphics), are now in a single subdirectory. You can copy the contents of the subdirectory http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu./~malavet/civpro/notes.