As my Civ Pro students know, I like to analogize supplemental jurisdiction to an ice cream cone: The cone is the federal district court. The ice cream is original jurisdiction. Examples include sections 1331, 1332, 1335, 1338, etc. The sprinkles are supplemental jurisdiction. Can you have an ice cream cone without ice cream? No, that’d […]
St. Thomas Law‘s own Professor Patricia Hatamyar Moore testified today before the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives regarding class actions. The hearing addressed “The State of Class Action Ten Years After the Enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act.” Professor Moore was the only professor to address the committee and did a fantastic job, doing […]
Harry was smacked in the head with a book by either Atticus or Dexter (or both). Harry is not sure which person smacked him in the head. So Harry sues them in the alternative, alleging: Count I: Atticus hit me; Count II: Dexter hit me; Count III: Both Atticus and Dexter hit me. Atticus is an […]
Just posted: Part II of the review of Civil Procedure topics for the Spring 2015 Multistate Bar Examination, available here. This video provides a review of some of the Civil Procedure topics that may be on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) in February 2015. Topics covered: Preliminary injunctions & TROs Pleading (plausibility, answers, amended pleadings, relation-back) Rule […]
