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Civil procedure cases
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:18 pm
by 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.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:23 pm
by NoleinNY
Yep. Got'em.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:59 pm
by lzyovrachievr
Read all of those except the Go Daddy case.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:02 pm
by 5ky
You will typically find that the cases you read for a statutory course are a bit more recent than for common law.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:22 pm
by Michael_Vick
Twombly and Iqbal.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:24 pm
by shoeshine
Read all except Go-daddy.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:30 pm
by SilverE2
Actually both of my civ pro and contracts classes use very recent cases.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:07 pm
by Stringer Bell
shoeshine wrote:Read all except Go-daddy.
+1
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:14 pm
by Gecko of Doom
Michael_Vick wrote:Twombly and Iqbal.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:25 pm
by 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.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:46 pm
by Redzo
Sandro wrote: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.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:50 pm
by MrPapagiorgio
Gecko of Doom wrote:Michael_Vick wrote:Twombly and Iqbal.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:17 pm
by Sandro
Redzo wrote:Sandro wrote: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.
Re: Civil procedure cases
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:02 pm
by ahduth
Redzo wrote: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.