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Civil Procedure: Other Disciplines, Globalization, And Simple Gifts, Gene R. Shreve
Civil Procedure: Other Disciplines, Globalization, And Simple Gifts, Gene R. Shreve
Michigan Law Review
A Review of American Civil Procedure: An Introduction by Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. and Michele Taruffo
Interstate Consolidation: A Comparison Of The Ali Project With The Uniform Transfer Of Litigation Act (American Law Institute Complex Litigation Project: A Symposium, In Memoriam Donald Theodore Trautman), Edward H. Cooper
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The Uniform Transfer of Litigation Act (UTLA) was undertaken for purposes simpler than the mass consolidation of multiparty, multiforum litigation. It seeks to create an effective tool that can be used to reduce some of the artificial barriers that tradition has erected around the sovereign separateness of the many different court systems in this country. The fact of separate sovereignty must be recognized, however, and to this end consent of both transferring and receiving courts is required. Within the consent requirement, transfer from the court system of one sovereign to the court system of another can improve on present practices …
Discovery Cost Allocation: Comment On Cooter And Rubinfeld, Edward H. Cooper
Discovery Cost Allocation: Comment On Cooter And Rubinfeld, Edward H. Cooper
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Discovery practice continues to be the single most troubling element of contemporary procedure. To be sure, the system seems to work well in a high proportion of all federal cases. The proportion may seem astonishingly high in relation to the amount of attention devoted to discovery. The discovery problems that occur in a relatively small proportion of the federal caseload, however, impose serious burdens on the parties and the court system. Every proposal that addresses discovery "abuse" deserves serious attention. These comments focus on the discovery abuse portion of the paper by Cooter and Rubinfeld. Questions are posed that may …