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| Preface to Students | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Special Notice | |
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| Choosing A Proper Court | |
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| Personal Jurisdiction: The Enigma of Minimum Contacts | |
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| Statutory Limits on Personal Jurisdiction: The Reach and Grasp of the Long-Arm | |
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| Seeking the Home Field Advantage: Challenges to Personal Jurisdiction | |
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| Diversity Jurisdiction: When Does Multiplicity Constitute Diversity? | |
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| Personal and Subject Matter Jurisdiction Compared: The First Two Rings | |
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| Second-Guessing the Plaintiff's Choice of Forum: Removal | |
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| Proper Venue in Federal Courts: A Rough Measure of Convenience | |
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| Choosing a Proper Court: The Three Rings Reconsidered | |
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| State Law In Federal Courts | |
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| Easy Erie: The Law of Rome and Athens | |
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| Eerie Erie: The Substance/Substance Distinction | |
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| Erie and State Choice of Law: Vertical Uniformity and Horizontal Chaos | |
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| The Scope Of The Action | |
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| Sculpting the Lawsuit: The Basic Rules of Joinder | |
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| Into the Labyrinth: Joinder of Parties under Rule 14 | |
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| Jurisdictional Fellow Travelers: Supplemental Jurisdiction | |
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| Jurisdiction vs. Joinder: The Difference between Power and Permission | |
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| Steps In The Litigation Process | |
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| The Bearer of Bad Tidings: Service of Process in the Federal Courts | |
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| Getting Off Easy: The Motion to Dismiss | |
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| The Scope of Discovery: The Rules Giveth, and the Rules Taketh Away | |
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| Tools of the Trade: Basic Methods of Discovery | |
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| Defective Allegation or Insufficient Proof?: Dismissal for Failure to State a Claim Compared to Summary Judgment | |
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| The Judge and the Jury, Part One: Judgment as a Matter of Law (Directed Verdict) | |
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| The Judge and the Jury, Part Two: Whose Case Is This, Anyway? | |
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| The Effect Of The Judgement | |
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| Res Judicata: The Limits of Procedural Liberality | |
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| Res Judicata and the Rules of Joinder: When Does May Mean Must? | |
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| Collateral Estoppel: Fine-Tuning the Preclusion Doctrine | |
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| The Obscure Kingdom: Nonmutual Collateral Estoppel | |
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| Thinking Procedurally: The Rules In Action | |
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| An Introduction to Pretrial Litigation: Setting the Stage for the Schulansky Case | |
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| First Moves: Schulansky Goes to Court | |
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| A Change of Forum: Ronan Removes to Federal Court | |
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| The Defendant's Perspective: Ronan's Answer and Counterclaim | |
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| Chain Reaction: Ronan Brings in Jones | |
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| Preliminary Objections: Jones Seeks a Way Out | |
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| A Tactical Dilemma: Ronan's Motion for Summary Judgment | |
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| Index | |