Protecting the Right of Citizens to Aggregate Small Claims Against Businesses [PDF]
, 2013 Two years ago I ranted against the Supreme Court\u27s subversion of the Rules Enabling Act and its opposition to the benign aims of the twentieth-century progressive law reformers expressed summarily in Rule 1 of our Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.1 I ...
Carrington, Paul D.
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They Were Meant for Each Other: Professor Edward Cooper and the Rules Enabling Act [PDF]
, 2013 This introduction to the essays in this Symposium illuminates Professor Ed Cooper\u27s years as Reporter to the Civil Rules Committee by first briefly describing those who preceded him in the position and his own background.
Kravitz, Mark R. +3 more
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Federal Discovery: A Survey of Local Rules and Practices in View of Proposed Changes to the Federal Rules [PDF]
, 1979 Traditionally, except for the limited role played by pleadings and bills of particulars, the attorney in a law court did not disclose evidentiary matters until trial.
Cohn, Sherman L.
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From Witness Box to the Hot Tub: How the “Hot Tub†Approach to Expert Witnesses Might Relax an American Finder of Fact [PDF]
, 2010 The concurrent evidence procedure, informally known as “hot tubbing,†is a method of eliciting expert witness testimony that efficiently aims to educate the finder of fact so a just conclusion of the case is obtained. With experts from both sides of
Welch, S. (Scott)
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12 Confused Men: Using Flowchart Verdict Sheets To Mitigate Inconsistent Civil Verdicts [PDF]
, 2014 The finality of jury verdicts reflects an implicit societal acceptance of the soundness of the jury\u27s decision. Regardless, jurors are not infallible, and the questions they are often tasked with deciding are unfortunately neither obvious nor clear ...
Fang, Jerry J.
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Alternative Litigation Finance and the Limits of the Work-Product Doctrine [PDF]
, 2016 As third-party funding of litigation begins to take hold in the United States, debates about the normative value of such arrangements have heated up among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
Glover, J. Maria
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Federal Civil Procedure: Intervention of Right Granted Private Party in Government Antitrust Suit Under New Rule 24(a)(2) [PDF]
, 1968 Recent revisions of rule 24 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure removed certain restrictive interpretations which had been engrafted upon the old form.
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Legal Research in an Electronic Age: Electronic Data Discovery, a Litigation Albatross of Gigantic Proportions [PDF]
, 2010 [Excerpt] “The increase in e-discovery, e-discovery‘s impact on litigation, and the courts‘ unavoidable role in defining the limits of discovery led to the author‘s decision to develop this article.
Anga, Ahunanya
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Is federal rule of civil procedure 19 (B) too discretionary?
, 2021 The comparative analysis of Rule 19(b) and legal rules governing the required joinder of parties in Italian and German legal systems suggests some thoughts about a better way to define the judicial discretion in determining whether a person who should be joined is actually indispensable – that is, essential to dismiss the action when that person cannot
Cavallini, Cesare, Gaboardi, Marcello
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