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In Civil Procedure: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers, Second Edition, Scott Dodson helps students demonstrate their knowledge of civil procedure in the structured and sophisticated manner that professors expect on law school exams. This book provides clear introductions to the major topics in civil procedure and includes the fact patterns and model answers most often found on Civil Procedure tests, followed by a comprehensive self-analysis section, giving students the opportunity to evaluate their own work. It prepares students by challenging them to use the law they learn in class while also explaining the way to best express the answer on law school exams. This second edition has been updated to reflect recent changes to the federal rules of civil procedure.
As a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ginsburg has influenced the law and society in real and permanent ways. This collection of essays chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements she has made over the past half century. Readers will discover diverse perspectives on an array of doctrinal areas and on different time periods in Ginsburg's career, creating an impressive legacy of one of the most important figures in modern law.
Since the 1960s, the class action lawsuit has been a powerful tool for holding businesses accountable. Yet years of attacks by corporate America and unfavorable rulings by the Supreme Court have left its future uncertain. In this book, Brian T. Fitzpatrick makes the case for the importance of class action litigation from a surprising political perspective: an unabashedly conservative point of view. Conservatives have opposed class actions in recent years, but Fitzpatrick argues that they should see such litigation not as a danger to the economy, but as a form of private enforcement of the law. He starts from the premise that all of us, conservatives and libertarians included, believe that ma...
Jealousy was the last thing Scott Harris expected to feel. Especially over an employee. But one of the guests at the Hole in the Wall Dude Ranch is showing an unusual interest in his ranch manager Valerie Drayton, and Scott doesn't like it one bit. Trouble is, Val seems determined to stick to Scott’s own rule—no fraternizing with the boss.
A general theory of the civil action.
Major Oliver White, leader of the free world, has been living in a bubble for far too long. After surviving the Turning twenty-seven years ago and establishing a safe haven within the confines of a man-made River, Josco’s are coming, and supplies are running low threatening their way of life. Lieutenant Scott Dodson, born after Turning, finds that Major’s dreams of returning to the way America used to be just don’t resonate, war with the Joscos is all he knows. On a supply run to Texas, things go terribly wrong, revealing dangerous facts about the world they thought they knew. First Class Petty Officer Jayce Brock, estranged adopted son of Oliver, is a strait-laced soldier who has always done what he’s told but finds himself with a unique connection to the Joscos that pushes him to disobey orders to uncover the answers. Captain Nolan Wilkinson, second in command and a no-nonsense Navy SEAL, takes control of a fight he’s all too familiar with, hoping to level the playing field only to find out that he may have just made their situation much worse.
Written by leading authorities in the field of European civil procedure and collective redress, this timely book explores the model collective proceedings rules in the ELI/UNDROIT European Rules of Civil Procedure. It explains the intended application of this ‘best practice’ set of collective redress rules, intended to promote greater consistency in civil and commercial court procedure across Europe, linking to existing European practice and initiatives in the field.