CIVIL PROCEDURE
(Course No. LAW-5301, Section No. 1303)
SPRING 2008
Professor Pedro A. Malavet

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.

MATERIALS

Syllabus

Assignments/
Notes

Exams/ Feedback

Projects/ Feedback

Graphics/ Handouts

Spring 2008

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.

FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE DOWNLOADS

Spring 2008 students will be responsible for the Restyled Rules, which became effective on December 1, 2007. Remember that you are responsible for the text of the restyled rules as it appears in your Rules Supplement (in italics, following the text of the old rule).

There are three files here:
(1) My own edited versions of the rules as they existed prior to December 1, 2007 (I have exported the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as I used them during the Spring of 2007. The file is huge, so be sure that you have broadband access before attempting to access it. I had to substitute highlighters with simple text color);
(2) the new restyled version of the rules in a pdf file;
(3) the new restyled version of the rules in an MSWord file.

[Click Here for My Edited Version of the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]

[Click here for: Restyled Rules PDF]

[Click here for: Restyled Rules MSWord]

[Click here for: Old/New Rules Comparison Chart]

2007 Practical Project

Updated: March 4, 2007.

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.

Exams

Examination Feedback Memoranda

 

Practical Projects

Practical Project Feedback Memoranda

Class Notes

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.

Graphics & Handouts


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

THIS IS THE END!