Overview Flashcards by Melisa Vila

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Choosing a Court

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Subject Matter Jurisdiction = Power of a Federal Court to adjudicate a case

Personal Jurisdiction

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Subject Matter Jurisdiction

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Power of a Federal Court to adjudicate a case

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Diversity Jurisdiction

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Complete Diversity

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Change of Citizenship

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Corporate Citizenship

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Jurisdictional Amount (diversity jurisdiction)

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Federal Question Jurisdiction

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Well-Pleaded Complaint Rule

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Creation Test

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Important federal question

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Grable exception

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Supplemental Jurisdiction

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Circumventing diversity

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Jurisdictional amount (supplemental jurisdiction)

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Removal jurisdiction

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Federal Question removal

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Diversity jurisdiction removal

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Personal Jurisdiction

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Specific jurisdiction

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Purposeful Contacts

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relatedness, reasonableness factors

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General jurisdiction

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Continuous & systematic contacts

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In Rem jurisdiction

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Transient jurisdiction

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Due Process requirement of notice

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Venue

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Erie Doctrine

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Twin aims of Erie

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Forum Shopping

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Inequitable administration of the laws

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Byrd balancing

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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure conflicting with state law

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Indisputable conflict

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Validity of federal rule

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Pleadings, Motions, and Discovery

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Complaint

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Plausible claim for relief

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Factual allegations

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Response

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Pre answer motion 12b

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Waiver 12g and h

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Answer

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Amendments

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Claims and Parties

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Permissive Joinder

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Counter-claims

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Cross-claims

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Impleader

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other Rule 14 claims

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Supplemental jurisdiction (28 USC 1367)

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Work Product

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Documents and tangible things

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By party or agent of party

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in anticipation of litigation

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substantial need and inability to acquire an equivalent

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Discovery devices

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E-Discovery

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Methods of discovery

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Summary Judgements

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No genuine issue of material fact

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Judgement as a matter of law

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Right to Jury Trial

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Preclusion Rules

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Claim preclusion

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same claim

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privity

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issue preclusion

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non-mutual issue preclusion

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