Legal Process (Fall 2008)
Professor Rhonda Wasserman
PowerPoint Slides
| Class 1 (Introduction; Themes; Review of Background Reading on Spheres of Law-making Authority) | Class 2 (Review of Background Reading; Intersecting Spheres: Checks and Balances) | Class 3 (Statutory Interpretation; McDonald v. Sante Fe Trail Transp. Co.) | Class 4 (Complicating Circumstances; Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council) | Class 5 (Chevron USA v. NRDC; Interplay between Statutory and Common Law Analysis; City of Milwaukee v. Illinois) | Class 6 (City of Milwaukee v. Illinois; The Adversary System) |
| Class 7 (Video: Truth on Trial; the Adversary System) | Class 8 (Alternative Dispute Resolution; Intro. to Personal Jurisdiction) | Class 9 (Pennoyer v. Neff) | Class 10 (Pennoyer v. Neff; Harris v. Balk) | Class 11 Struggling with Pennoyer; International Shoe Co. v. Washington) | Class 12 (International Shoe Co. v. Washington; Putting Shaffer in Context; Shaffer v. Heitner) |
| Class 13 (Shaffer v. Heitner; intro. to long-arm statutes; Gray v. Am. Radiator & Std. Sanitary Co.) | Class 14 (Gray v. Am. Radiator Co.; Personal Jurisdiction in Federal Court; Rule 4(k)(1) & (2); Mwani v. bin Laden; DC long-arm statute) | Class 15 (Mwani v. bin Laden; Rule 4(k)(2) & Rule (4)(f)(3); Procedures for Challenging Jurisdiction: Rule 12(b), 12(g) & 12(h)(1)) | Class 16 (World-wide Volkswagen v. Woodson) | Class 17 (Does Gray Survive World-wide Volkswagen?; Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz) | Class 18 (hypo's following Burger King; Asahi Metal Co. v. Super. Ct.) |
| Class 19 (Asahi Metal Co. v. Super. Ct.; Helicopteros Nacionales de Colombia v. Hall) | Class 20 (Pavlovich v. Superior Ct.; Burnham v. Superior Ct.) | Class 21 (Burnham v. Superior Ct.; Service of Process; Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.; Intro. to federal subject matter jurisdiction and diversity jurisdiction) | Class 22 (Intro. to diversity jurisdiction; domicile; Mas v. Perry; jurisdictional amount requirement) | Class 23 (Jurisdictional amount requirement; aggregation rules; federal question jurisdiction; § 1331; Louisville & Nashville R.R. v. Mottley; Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals v. Thompson) | Class 24 (Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals v. Thompson; Grable & Sons Metal Prods., Inc. v. Darue Eng'g & Mfg.) |
| Class 25 (Grable & Sons Metal Prods., Inc. v. Darue Eng'g & Mfg.; Removal: 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441, 1446 & 1447) | Class 26 (Intro. to the Erie doctrine; Erie R.R. v. Tompkins; Guaranty Trust Co. v. York) | Class 27 (Guaranty Trust Co. v. York; Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Elec. Coop., Inc.) | Class 28 (Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Elec. Co.; Hanna v. Plumer) | Optional session 3 |
Optional session 4 Optional session 5 |