Civil procedure cases Forum

[Redzo]

Just curious if everybody's civil procedure classes are using many recent cases, or if mine is unusual. We've had to read quite a few recent opinions that were not in the textbook, such as Goodyear, Nicastro, uBid v. Go Daddy, Twombly, and now Iqbal.

It is kinda nice to read such recent decisions, as opposed to being in Contracts and everything being a writ of assumpsit from 1834.

[NoleinNY]

Yep. Got'em.

[lzyovrachievr]

Read all of those except the Go Daddy case.

[5ky]

You will typically find that the cases you read for a statutory course are a bit more recent than for common law.

[Michael_Vick]

Twombly and Iqbal.

[shoeshine]

Read all except Go-daddy.

[SilverE2]

Actually both of my civ pro and contracts classes use very recent cases.

[Stringer Bell]

Read all except Go-daddy.

+1

[Gecko of Doom]

Twombly and Iqbal.

[Sandro]

Do any of your Civ Pro professors go into detail about each supreme court justice on these cases? I feel like I will have to basically work in a biography of each justice on my exam into personal jurisdiction.

[Redzo]

Do any of your Civ Pro professors go into detail about each supreme court justice on these cases? I feel like I will have to basically work in a biography of each justice on my exam into personal jurisdiction.

Yeah, I feel you on that. My Civ Pro professor is a total procedure geek (clerked for a judge on the Standing Committee on the Rules of Practice and Procedure) and she really gets in to these cases. Especially in Nicastro, where she expects us to know what Kennedy's plurality opinion said and also what Breyer and Alito's concurrence held. In other cases she wants us to reference certain Justices as well.

[MrPapagiorgio]

Twombly and Iqbal.

[Sandro]

Do any of your Civ Pro professors go into detail about each supreme court justice on these cases? I feel like I will have to basically work in a biography of each justice on my exam into personal jurisdiction.

Yeah, I feel you on that. My Civ Pro professor is a total procedure geek (clerked for a judge on the Standing Committee on the Rules of Practice and Procedure) and she really gets in to these cases. Especially in Nicastro, where she expects us to know what Kennedy's plurality opinion said and also what Breyer and Alito's concurrence held. In other cases she wants us to reference certain Justices as well.

our prof clerked for a current sc justice , woosahh.

[ahduth]

Just curious if everybody's civil procedure classes are using many recent cases, or if mine is unusual. We've had to read quite a few recent opinions that were not in the textbook, such as Goodyear, Nicastro, uBid v. Go Daddy, Twombly, and now Iqbal.

It is kinda nice to read such recent decisions, as opposed to being in Contracts and everything being a writ of assumpsit from 1834.

Goodyear and Nicastro; maybe we'll read Iqbal (we're slooooow). Go Daddy and Twombly aren't in the book, so presumably we won't.