PART ONE. CHOOSING A PROPER COURT

Chapter 1. Personal Jurisdiction: The Enigma of Minimum Contacts
Chapter 2. Statutory Limits on Personal Jurisdiction: The Reach and Grasp of the Long-Arm
Chapter 3. Seeking the Home Field Advantage: Challenges to Personal Jurisdiction
Chapter 4. Federal Questions and Federal Cases: Jurisdiction over Cases “Arising under” Federal Law
Chapter 5. Diversity Jurisdiction: When Does Multiplicity Constitute Diversity?
Chapter 6. Personal and Subject Matter Jurisdiction Compared: The First Two Rings
Chapter 7. Second Guessing the Plaintiff’s Choice of Forum: Removal
Chapter 8. Proper Venue in Federal Courts: A Rough Measure of Convenience
Chapter 9. Choosing a Proper Court: The Three Rings Reconsidered

PART TWO. STATE LAW IN FEDERAL COURTS

Chapter 10. Easy Erie: The Law of Rome and Athens
Chapter 11. Eerie Erie: The Substance/Substance Distinction
Chapter 12. Erie and State Choice of Law: Vertical Uniformity and Horizontal Chaos

PART THREE. THE SCOPE OF THE ACTION

Chapter 13. Sculpting the Lawsuit: The Basic Rules of Joinder
Chapter 14. Into the Labyrinth: Joinder of Parties under Rule 14
Chapter 15. Essentials and Interlopers: Joinder of Parties under Rules 19 and 24
Chapter 16: Jurisdictional Fellow Travelers: Supplemental Jurisdiction
Chapter 17. Jurisdiction v. Joinder: The Difference between Power and Persuasion

PART FOUR. STEPS IN THE LITIGATION PROCESS

Chapter 18. The Bearer of Bad Tidings: Service of Process in the Federal Courts
Chapter 19. Getting Off Easy: The Motion to Dismiss
Chapter 20. When Justice so Requires: Amendments to Pleadings under the Federal Rules
Chapter 21. The Scope of Discovery: The Rules Giveth, and the Rules Taketh Away
Chapter 22. Tools of the Trade: The Basic Methods of Discovery
Chapter 23. Defective Allegation or Insufficient Proof?: Dismissal for Failure to State a Claim Compared to Summary Judgment
Chapter 24. The Judge and the Jury, Part One: Judgment as a Matter of Law (Directed Verdict)
Chapter 25. The Judge and the Jury, Part Two: Whose Case Is This, Anyway?

PART FIVE. THE EFFECT OF THE JUDGMENT

Chapter 26. Res Judicata: The Limits of Procedural Liberality
Chapter 27. Res Judicata and the Rules of Joinder: When Does May Mean Must?
Chapter 28. Collateral Estoppel: Fine-Tuning the Preclusion Doctrine
Chapter 29. The Obscure Kingdom: Nonmutual Collateral Estoppel

PART SIX. THINKING PROCEDURALLY: THE RULES IN ACTION

Chapter 30. An Introduction to the Pretrial Litigation Process: Setting the Stage for the Schulansky Case
Chapter 31. First Moves: Schulansky Goes to Court
Chapter 32. A Change of Forum: Ronan Removes to Federal Court
Chapter 33. The Defendants’ Perspective: Ronan’s Answer and Counterclaim
Chapter 34. Chain Reaction: Ronan Brings in Jones
Chapter 35. Preliminary Objections: Jones Seeks a Way Out

Index