Civil Procedure (Spring 2008)
Professor Rhonda Wasserman
Civil Procedure Power Point Slides
| Class 1 (1/7/08): General Introduction; Pleadings; Rule 7(a); Purposes Served by Pleadings; Rule 3; Rule 8(a) | Class 2 (1/8/08): Rule 8(d)(1); Rule 10; U.S. v. Bd. of Harbor Commissioners; Rule 12(e); Rule (f) & Sample Motion to Strike; Consistency in Pleading; Rule 8(d)(2) & (3); Rule 11 | Class 3 (1/14/08): Rule 11; Zuk v. Eastern Pa. Psych. Inst. | Class
4 (1/15/08): Zuk v. Eastern Pa. Psych. Inst.; Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim; Mitchell v. Archibald & Kendall; Rule 9(b); Pleading Fraud with Particularity; Heightened Pleading Requirements; Private Securities Litig. Reform Act; Tellabs; Swierkiewicz v. Sorema |
Class 5 (1/22/08): Swierkiewicz v. Sorema; Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly | Class 6 (1/28/08): Pre-answer Motions; Rule 12(g) & (h); The Answer; Rule 8(b); General Denials; David v. Crompton & Knowles Corp.; Affirmative Defenses |
| Class 7 (1/29/08): Layman v. SW Bell Tel. Co.; Answers to Counterclaims and Replies; Intro. to Amendments; Rule 15(a); David v. Crompton & Knowles Corp. | Class 8 (2/4/08): Rule 15(b) & (c); Swartz v. Gold Dust Casino) | Class 9 (2/5/08): change in Rule 15(c)(1)(C); Intro. to Preclusion; Manego v. Orleans Board of Trade; Claim Preclusion as Applied to Defendants | Class 10 (2/11/08): Rinehart v. Locke; Little v. Blue Goose Motor Coach Co.; Hardy v. Johns-Manville Corp. | Class 11 (2/12/08): Comm'r of Internal Revenue v. Sunnen; Tax Benefit of Income Shifting; Halpern v. Schwartz | Class 12 (2/18/08): Privity: Benson & Ford v. Wanda Petroleum; Intro. to Mutuality; Parklane Hosiery v. Shore |
| Class 13 (2/19/08): Joinder of Claims by Plaintiffs; Rule 18(a); Supplemental Jurisdiction: United Mine Workers v. Gibbs; § 1367(a) & (c); Joinder of Claims by Defendants; Rule 13(a) & (b); Wigglesworth v. Teamsters | Class 14 (2/25/08): Wigglesworth v. Teamsters Local; Rule 13(a) & (b); Crossclaims; Rule 13(g); Supplemental Jd over Counterclaims and Crossclaims; § 1367(a); Alternate Views; §§ 1367(b) & (c); Intro. to Joinder of Parties; Rule 20(a); Three Caveats | Class 15 (2/26/08): Kedra v. City of Phil.; Rule 20(a)(2); Insolia v. Philip Morris; Rule 20(a)(1); Intro. to Pendent Party Jurisdiction; Jurisdictional Wrinkles: The "Easy Cases"; §§ 1367(a) & (b); The "Harder Cases" | Class 16 (3/3/08): The "Harder Cases"; Exxon Mobile Corp. v. Allapattah Servs., Inc.; §§ 1367(a) & (b); Introduction to Rule 19; Rule 19(a) | Class 17 (3/4/08): Rule 19(a) & (b); Rule 12(b)(7) & (h)(2); § 1367(b); Janney Montgomery Scott, Inc. v. Shepard Niles, Inc. | Class 18 (3/17/08): Temple v. Synthes; Introduction to Impleader; Rule 14(a) & (b); § 1367(b); Rule 18(a); Clark v. Associates Commercial Corp. |
| Class 19 (3/18/08): Clark v. Associates Commercial Corp.; Intro. to Interpleader; §§ 1335, 1397 & 2361; Rule 22(a) & (b); differences between 2 kinds of interpleader; State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Tashire | Class 20 (3/24/08): State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Tashire; Intro. to Intervention; Rule 24; 28 U.S.C. § 1367(b); NRDC v. Nuclear Regul. Comm'n | Class 21 (3/25/08): NRDC v. Nuclear Regul. Comm'n; Rule 24(a); Intro. to Class Actions; Hypotheticals to introduce Hansberry; Hansberry v. Lee | Class 22 (3/31/08): Hansberry v. Lee; Walters v. Reno; Rule 23(a) | Class 23 (4/1/08): Walters v. Reno; Rule 23(a) & (b); In Re Rhone-Poulenc Rorer | Class 24 (4/7/08): In Re Rhone-Poulenc Rorer; Subject Matter Jurisdiction in class actions; §§ 1367(a) & (b); Class Action Fairness Act; Intro. to Discovery; Amendments to Combat Perceived Problems; Rules 26(b)(1) & (b)(2)(C) |
| Class 25 (4/8/08): Amendments to Combat Perceived Problems; Mandatory Disclosures; Rule 34: Requests for Production of Documents; Challenges of Electronic Discovery; Rule 33: Interrogatories; Rule 30: Depositions | Class 26 (4/10/08): Rule 30: Depositions; Rule 35 (Physical & Mental Exams); Hickman v. Taylor; Rule 26(b)(3) | Class 27 (4/14/08): Rule 37: Sanctions; Discovery Games; Intro. to Summary Judgment; Rule 56(c); Adickes v. S.H. Kress & Co. | Class 28 (4/15/08): Celotex v. Catrett; Arnstein v. Porter; Dyer v. MacDougall | Review Session (4/22/08) | |