The leading casebook for Civil Procedure features:

* a clear and straightforward writing style
* a helpful overview of the procedural system
* techniques for statutory analysis explained in plain English
* a manageable overall length
* a flexible organization that adapts to a variety of teaching approaches
* a companion CD with complete text of all of the cases in the book
* an Annual Statutory and Case Supplement available for adoption
* a Companion Website with additional teaching materials, including the full text of every case discussed in the book

Updated throughout, the Seventh Edition incorporates the restyled rules from the December 2007 Amendments to the FRCP, as well as material on recent developments, including:

* contemporary pleading systems and problems, incorporating recent Supreme Court pleading cases
* discovery: spoliation of evidence, E-discovery, sanctions
* resolution without trial: emerging trends in judicial regulation of arbitration
* former adjudication: preclusion & arbitration

Table of Contents

Chapter I: An Overview of Procedure

Part A: The Constitutional Framework for U.S. Litigations

Chapter II: Personal Jurisdiction
Chapter III: Subject Matter of Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts
Chapter IV: The Erie Problem

Part B: The Process of Litigation

Chapter V: Incentives to Litigate
Chapter VI: Pleading
Chapter VII: Discovery
Chapter VIII: Resolution Without Trial
Chapter IX: The Trier and the Trial
Chapter X: Appeal
Chapter XI: Respect for Judgments

Part C: Probing the Boundaries of Litigation: Additional Claims and Parties

Chapter XII: Joinder

Table of Cases
Index