Research Catalog

Title

A documentary companion to A civil action : with notes, comments, and questions / by Lewis A. Grossman, Robert G. Vaughn.

Author

Grossman, Lewis A., 1964-

Publication

New York : Foundation Press ; [St. Paul, Minn.] : Thomson/West, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harr, Jonathan.
• Vaughn, Robert G.

Description

lxi, 802 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

This companion is intended to be used in conjunction with A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr" and "contains a broad selection of documents from Anderson v. Cryovac.

Subject

• Anderson, Anne, 1936?- > Trials, litigation, etc
• Civil procedure > United States
• Drinking water > Contamination > Woburn
• Groundwater > Law and legislation > Woburn
• Liability for water pollution damages > Woburn
• Schlichtmann, Jan
• Trials (Toxic torts) > Boston
• W.R. Grace & Co. > Trials, litigation, etc

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Personal jurisdiction -- Notice -- Subject matter jurisdiction -- Venue and transfer -- The governing law in a diversity case -- Pleadings -- Joinder of claims and parties -- Discovery I: introduction and scope -- Discovery II: Techniques -- Discovery III: secrecy in litigation -- Discovery IV: abuse and sanctions -- Scheduling and pretrial conferences -- Settlement and voluntary dismissal -- Summary judgment -- Right to trial by jury and jury selection -- Motion for judgment as a matter of law -- Instructions and verdicts -- Renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law after trial and motion for a new trial -- Appeals and rule 60 motions -- Claim and issue preclusion.

ISBN

• 1599410257 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781599410258 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006277136

OCLC

68621882

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library