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Chapters Of The Civil Jury, Doug R. Rendleman
Chapters Of The Civil Jury, Doug R. Rendleman
Doug Rendleman
The civil jury, though constitutionally protected by the seventh amendment, has remained a controversial institution throughout much of Anglo-American legal history. Our romantic ideals are questioned by critics who view the civil jury as prejudiced and unpredictable; proponents note the sense of fairness and "earthy wisdom" gained by community participation in the legal process. This debate surfaces in the process of accommodation between certain substantive goals of the law and the pre-verdict and post-verdict procedural devices courts have employed to control the jury. In this article, Professor Rendleman examines this conflict in his three "chapters" involving racially motivated discharges of …
Comment On Judge F. Weis, Jr., Service By Mail—Is The Stamp Of Approval From The Hague Convention Always Enough?, Doug Rendleman
Comment On Judge F. Weis, Jr., Service By Mail—Is The Stamp Of Approval From The Hague Convention Always Enough?, Doug Rendleman
Doug Rendleman
Joseph F. Weis Jr's theories regarding US procedural policymaking and service by mail from the Hague Convention are examined. Weis explores two themes that run through US civil procedure: counterintuitive instrumentalism and underlying pragmatism.
Disobedience And Coercive Contempt Confinement: The Terminally Stubborn Contemnor, Doug Rendleman
Disobedience And Coercive Contempt Confinement: The Terminally Stubborn Contemnor, Doug Rendleman
Doug Rendleman
No abstract provided.
Simplification- A Civil Procedure Perspective, Doug Rendleman
Simplification- A Civil Procedure Perspective, Doug Rendleman
Doug Rendleman
No abstract provided.
Arbitration And Reform In Private Securities Litigation: Dealing With The Meritorious As Well As The Frivolous, Steven A. Ramirez
Arbitration And Reform In Private Securities Litigation: Dealing With The Meritorious As Well As The Frivolous, Steven A. Ramirez
Steven A. Ramirez
No abstract provided.
Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. V. Brown (And J. Mcintyre Machinery, Ltd. V. Nicastro), William M. Janssen
Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. V. Brown (And J. Mcintyre Machinery, Ltd. V. Nicastro), William M. Janssen
William M. Janssen
This chapter discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's two personal jurisdiction decisions from June 2011, and assesses their impact in drug and device litigation.
It's All About The People: Personal Jurisdiction, Lord Of The Rings And Classroom Community In Civil Procedure I, Jennifer E. Spreng
It's All About The People: Personal Jurisdiction, Lord Of The Rings And Classroom Community In Civil Procedure I, Jennifer E. Spreng
Jennifer E Spreng
This article describes my ongoing experiments with “learning communities” and “spiral curricula” in my Civil Procedure I classes, as influenced by my eight years as a sole practitioner in Western Kentucky. Despite endorsement from many education theorists and classroom teachers and potential effectiveness in combating student disaffection, neither has made more than the shallowest dent in legal education. “Classroom community” implies a less stratified and more culturally respectful education experience that is more rewarding, more honorable and more likely to be urban law school graduates’ professional future. Spiral curriculum design facilitates analytical depth that leads to a sense of the …
Rethinking Extraordinary Circumstances, Scott Dodson
Rethinking Extraordinary Circumstances, Scott Dodson
Scott Dodson
Structuring Jurisdictional Rules And Standards, Scott Dodson, Elizabeth Mccuskey
Structuring Jurisdictional Rules And Standards, Scott Dodson, Elizabeth Mccuskey
Scott Dodson
Presuit Discovery In A Comparative Context, Scott Dodson
Presuit Discovery In A Comparative Context, Scott Dodson
Scott Dodson
In civil litigation around the globe, the usual process is that investigative discovery is allowed (if at all) only after the plaintiff files an initial pleading. Recently, however, a growing number of jurisdictions have adopted general mechanisms for presuit investigative discovery. This paper explores these mechanisms and probes their nature and importance. It first finds that presuit investigative discovery is surprisingly prevalent among common-law systems, despite the usual order of pleading and discovery. The paper then argues that presuit investigative discovery can provide a useful tool for enabling plaintiffs to file a sufficient complaint in fact-pleading jurisdictions. Finally, the paper …
A New Look At Dismissal Rates In Federal Civil Cases, Scott Dodson
A New Look At Dismissal Rates In Federal Civil Cases, Scott Dodson
Scott Dodson
In the wake of Twombly and Iqbal, a number of studies have been conducted to determine their effects on dismissal practice in federal civil cases. However, because of coding and collection difficulties, those studies have tended to code whole cases rather than claims--leading to the ambiguous coding category of “mixed” dismissals and to problems in characterizing the nature of the dispute--and have failed to distinguish between legal sufficiency and factual sufficiency, potentially masking important detail about the effects of the pleadings changes.
This paper begins to fill in that detail. I compiled an original dataset of district court opinions and …