This supplement is an up-to-date source for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and notes of advisory committees, plus other materials important for teaching Civil Procedure and advanced procedure courses, including selected provisions from the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code and proposed legislation, state constitutions and state jurisdictional statutes, federal local rules (including local rules governing counsel’s use of Artificial Intelligence), sample judicial orders (including in class actions and MDL), and Rules of Appellate Procedure. It also contains edited versions of recent decisions of interest, including Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (the Supreme Court's 2023 decision on personal jurisdiction), Harrington v. Purdue Pharma (its 2024 decision on the use of bankruptcy proceedings to resolve mass tort liability), and SEC v. Jarkesy (its 2024 decision on the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial). In addition, the supplement provides materials for experiential learning, including a Flow Chart of a Civil Action, an Illustrative Litigation Problem with Sample Documents, and the complaints in Twombly, Iqbal, and Erickson v. Pardus. It may be used with all pleading and procedure casebooks.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 08/08/2024

Jack H. Friedenthal, George Washington University Law School

Arthur R. Miller, New York University School of Law

John E. Sexton, New York University School of Law

Helen Hershkoff, New York University School of Law

Adam N. Steinman, Texas A&M University School of Law

Troy A. McKenzie, New York University School of Law

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