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Fraud On The Court And Abusive Discovery, David R. Hague Mar 2016

Fraud On The Court And Abusive Discovery, David R. Hague

Nevada Law Journal

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Codifying The Issue Class Action, Laura J. Hines Mar 2016

Codifying The Issue Class Action, Laura J. Hines

Nevada Law Journal

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Reflections Of A Recovering Aggregationist, Linda S. Mullenix Jul 2015

Reflections Of A Recovering Aggregationist, Linda S. Mullenix

Nevada Law Journal

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Finding The Civil Trial's Democratic Future After Its Demise, David Marcus Jul 2015

Finding The Civil Trial's Democratic Future After Its Demise, David Marcus

Nevada Law Journal

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Procedural Constants: How Delay Aversion Shapes Reform, Thomas O. Main Jul 2015

Procedural Constants: How Delay Aversion Shapes Reform, Thomas O. Main

Nevada Law Journal

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How Atypical Cases Make Bad Rules: A Commentary On The Rulemaking Process, Suja A. Thomas, Dawson Price Jul 2015

How Atypical Cases Make Bad Rules: A Commentary On The Rulemaking Process, Suja A. Thomas, Dawson Price

Nevada Law Journal

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Amending Complaints To Sue Previously Misnamed Or Unidentified Defendants After The Statute Of Limitations Has Run: Questions Remaining From The Krupski Decision, Edward F. Sherman Jul 2015

Amending Complaints To Sue Previously Misnamed Or Unidentified Defendants After The Statute Of Limitations Has Run: Questions Remaining From The Krupski Decision, Edward F. Sherman

Nevada Law Journal

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Revisiting The Integration Of Law And Fact In Contemporary Federal Civil Litigation, Elizabeth M. Schneider Jul 2015

Revisiting The Integration Of Law And Fact In Contemporary Federal Civil Litigation, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Nevada Law Journal

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The Irrepressible Myth Of Burnham And Its Increasing Indefensibility After Goodyear And Daimler, Jeffrey W. Stempel Jul 2015

The Irrepressible Myth Of Burnham And Its Increasing Indefensibility After Goodyear And Daimler, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Nevada Law Journal

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Scott V. Harris And The Future Of Summary Judgment, Tobias Barrington Wolff Jul 2015

Scott V. Harris And The Future Of Summary Judgment, Tobias Barrington Wolff

Nevada Law Journal

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Screening Out Unwanted Calls: The Hypocrisy Of Standing "Doctrine", Mark S. Brodin Jul 2015

Screening Out Unwanted Calls: The Hypocrisy Of Standing "Doctrine", Mark S. Brodin

Nevada Law Journal

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Judicial Rejection Of Transsubstantivity: The Foia Example, Margaret B. Kwoka Jul 2015

Judicial Rejection Of Transsubstantivity: The Foia Example, Margaret B. Kwoka

Nevada Law Journal

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The Forms Had A Function: Rule 84 And The Appendix Of Forms As Guardians Of The Liberal Ethos In Civil Procedure, A. Benjamin Spencer Jul 2015

The Forms Had A Function: Rule 84 And The Appendix Of Forms As Guardians Of The Liberal Ethos In Civil Procedure, A. Benjamin Spencer

Nevada Law Journal

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The Grand Poobah And Gorillas In Our Midst: Enhancing Civil Justice In The Federal Courts—Swapping Discovery Procedures In The Federal Rules Of Civil And Criminal Procedure And Other Reforms Like Trial By Agreement, Mark W. Bennett Jul 2015

The Grand Poobah And Gorillas In Our Midst: Enhancing Civil Justice In The Federal Courts—Swapping Discovery Procedures In The Federal Rules Of Civil And Criminal Procedure And Other Reforms Like Trial By Agreement, Mark W. Bennett

Nevada Law Journal

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The Triumph Of Equity Revisited: The Stages Of Equitable Discretion, Doug Rendleman Jul 2015

The Triumph Of Equity Revisited: The Stages Of Equitable Discretion, Doug Rendleman

Nevada Law Journal

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Federal Court Rulemaking And Litigation Reform: An Institutional Approach, Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang Jul 2015

Federal Court Rulemaking And Litigation Reform: An Institutional Approach, Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang

Nevada Law Journal

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Contingency Of Openness In Courts: Changing The Experiences And Logics Of The Public's Role In Court-Based Adr, Judith Resnik Jul 2015

Contingency Of Openness In Courts: Changing The Experiences And Logics Of The Public's Role In Court-Based Adr, Judith Resnik

Nevada Law Journal

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Traditional Equity And Contemporary Procedure, Thomas O. Main Jan 2003

Traditional Equity And Contemporary Procedure, Thomas O. Main

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This Article offers extensive background on the development and eventual merger of the regimes of law and equity, and suggests that the procedural infrastructure of a unified system must be sufficiently elastic to accommodate the traditional jurisdiction of equity. As the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure become increasingly more elaborate and technical, strict application of those procedural rules can generate mischievous results and hardship. This Article suggests that equity remains a source of authority for district judges to avoid the application of a procedural rule when technical compliance would produce an inequitable result. A separate system of equity provided a …


"An Overwhelming Question" About Non-Formal Procedure, Thomas O. Main Jan 2002

"An Overwhelming Question" About Non-Formal Procedure, Thomas O. Main

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Procedural Uniformity And The Exagerated Role Of Rules, Thomas O. Main Jan 2001

Procedural Uniformity And The Exagerated Role Of Rules, Thomas O. Main

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No abstract provided.