Contents

Preface to Students

Acknowledgments

Special Notice

PART I. CHOOSING A PROPER COURT

Chapter 1  Personal Jurisdiction: The Enigma of Minimum Contacts

Chapter 2  Statutory Limits on Personal Jurisdiction: The Reach and Grasp of the Long-Arm

Chapter 3  Seeking the Home Field Advantage: Challenges to Personal Jurisdiction

Chapter 4  Federal Questions and Federal Cases: Jurisdiction over Cases “Arising under” Federal                        Law

Chapter 5  Diversity Jurisdiction: When Does Multiplicity Constitute Diversity?

Chapter 6  Personal and Subject Matter Jurisdiction Compared: The First Two Rings

Chapter 7  Second-Guessing the Plaintiff’s Choice of Forum: Removal

Chapter 8  Proper Venue in Federal Courts: A Rough Measure of Convenience

Chapter 9  Choosing a Proper Court: The Three Rings Reconsidered

PART II. STATE LAW IN FEDERAL COURTS

Chapter 10  Easy Erie: The Law of Rome and Athens

Chapter 11  Eerie Erie: The Substance/Substance Distinction

Chapter 12  Erie and State Choice of Law: Vertical Uniformity and Horizontal Chaos

PART III. THE SCOPE OF THE ACTION

Chapter 13  Sculpting the Lawsuit: The Basic Rules of Joinder

Chapter 14  Into the Labyrinth: Joinder of Parties under Rule 14

Chapter 15  Essentials and Interlopers: Joinder of Parties under Rules 19 and 24

Chapter 16  Jurisdictional Fellow Travelers: Supplemental Jurisdiction

Chapter 17  Jurisdiction vs. Joinder: The Difference between Power and Permission