Civil Procedure: Secondary Sources

Popular casebook author and bar review lecturer Richard Freer makes the complex principles of civil procedure accessible for students and practitioners in this treatise. Filled with hundreds of examples, the book integrates legal doctrine with factual analysis. The book breaks the doctrines of civil procedure into easy-to-understand components, and then brings them together to show how they form a comprehensive body of law.

Civil Procedure: A Coursebook offers students doctrinal clarity without sacrificing analytical rigor or glossing over ambiguities. The book's accessibility, organization, and interior design support its innovative pedagogy. New to the 5th Edition: * Revised treatment of personal jurisdiction with significant coverage of the Supreme Court's Ford decision. * New cases and materials for affirmative defenses (qualified immunity), class certification (stop and frisk policy), summary judgment (police shooting/qualified immunity), and issue preclusion (official misconduct), helping students connect procedure to current social issues.

Cahaba Publications is proud to present this concise and affordable case book supplement paperback edition of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Booklet (2025 Edition) with related statutory provision from the most commonly used sections from Title 28 of the United States Code (USC). All of Cahaba Publications' books feature the plain text of the Rules/Statutes themselves, simply and clearly displayed, without unneeded history lesson, amendment, gloss, or comment. Lawyers, students, and judges trust our Cahaba Publications' Concise Legal Series for quick references that they can use at their desks, classrooms, and courts.

This well-established treatise is premised on the assumption that the key to understanding the principles of civil procedure is to know why: why the principles were created and why they are invoked. The treatise is written to answer these questions as it lays out the basic principles of civil procedure. It also reflects the authors' belief that students of civil procedure can understand and appreciate complex principles when they are clearly presented; teaching civil procedure does not require dumbing it down.

The authors use the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as a model, but they also refer to different state rules and doctrines where appropriate in order to present a representative cross-section of state models. Although they discuss important civil procedure cases in the text, thus supporting the most widely used civil procedure casebooks using these same cases, they also provide useful references to secondary sources and illustrative cases for the reader who wants to explore further.