Civil Procedure

Linda Silberman, Allan R. Stein, Tobias Barrington Wolff

"Key features [of this updated text include]: discussion of 'notice of motion' requirement under Pennsylvania law; updates on Rule 11's certification requirement; expanded discussion of preclusion and public law litigation (How should a court address successive constitutional challenges to a statute?); expanded discussion of voluntary dismissals under Rule 41(a); expanded discussion on defining the transaction/occurrence for permissive joinder. (How should a court define the transaction or occurrence (or series of transactions or occurrences) out of which the claims must all arise in order to satisfy the joinder requirements of Rule 20?); discussion of recent Supreme Court rulings re: further specification of methods/requirements of proof at the certification stage and materials on class certification and the 'fraud on the market' theory; and discussion of Supreme Court's decision...