Civil Procedure Rules

Notice and Service (all)

4

Long Arms

4(k)

Types of Pleadings

7(a)

Complaints (“Claim for Relief”)

8(a)

Answers

8(b)

Affirmative Defenses

8(c)

Inconsistent & Alternative Claims/Defenses

8(d)

Pleading with Particularity: Fraud

9(b)

Pleading with Specificity: Special Damages

9(g)

Signature

11(a)

Representations to Court (PLEE)

11(b)

Sanctions (violation of PLEE)

11(c)

Time to Serve an Answer

12(a)

The 7 Defenses

12(b)

Joining Motions (& Limitations)

12(g)

Waiving & Preserving Certain Defenses (Includes SMJ Dismissal)

12(h)

Compulsory Counterclaims (STO2)

13(a)

Permissive Counterclaims

13(b)

Crossclaim Against a Coparty (STO2 + Always Permissive)

13(g)

Third-Party Practice (Impleader) from a Defendant

14(a)

Amendments Before Trial

15(a)

Relation Back of Amendments

15(c)

Amendments: Supplemental Pleadings (STO2 after date of pleading)

15(d)

Joinder of Claims (Permissive)

18(a)

Required Joinder of Parties: Feasible

19(a)

Required Joinder of Parties: Not Feasible

19(b)

Permissive Joinder of Parties (STO2+CQLF)

20(a)

Court may add/drop a party or sever a claim

21

Interpleader (the “res”)

22(a)

Intervention of Right

24(a)

Permissive Intervention (CQLF among others)

24(b)

Discovery: Required Disclosures

26(a)

Discovery Scope: General (relevant, nonprivileged, proportional)

26(b)(1)

Discovery Scope: Work Product (+MICOLT)

26(b)(3)

Discovery Scope: Experts for Trial Prep

26(b)(4)

Discovery: Protective Orders

26(c)

Depositions (only discovery device available against non-parties)

30

Interrogatories to Parties (25 & scope)

33(a)

Interrogatories: Answers and Objections

33(b)

Producing Documents/ESI

34

Mental and Physical Examinations

35(a)

Requests for Admission: Scope & Procedure

36(a)

Requests for Admission: Effect of Admission

36(b)

Motion to Compel

37(a)

Sanctions (context of discovery/depositions)

37(b)

Failure to Preserve ESI

37(e)

Right to a Jury Trial Preserved from 7th Am

38(a)

Voluntary Dismissal

41(a)

Involuntary Dismissal

41(b)

Separate Trials

42(b)

Subpoenas

45

Selecting Jurors

47

Number of Jurors (6-12)

48(a)

Special Verdict

49(a)

General Verdict w/ Answers to Written Questions

49(b)

JMOL

50(a)

Renewed JMOL

50(b)

Jury Instructions

51

Entering a Default

55(a)

Entering a Default Judgment

55(b)

Summary Judgment (No GDMF and movant entitled to JMOL)

56(a)

Summary Judgment (time to file: til 30d after close of discovery)

56(b)

Grounds for New Trial (any reason heretofore granted)

59(a)

Time to File Motion for New Trial (28d after entry of judgment)

59(b)

Relief from Judgment: Clerical Mistakes

60(a)

Grounds for Relief from a Final Judgment

60(b)

Harmless Error

61

Diversity

28 USC 1332

Federal Question

28 USC 1331

Removal Generally

28 USC 1441(a)

In-State Defendant Rule

28 USC 1441(b)(2)

Removal Procedure

28 USC 1446

Removal Timing

28 USC 1447(c)

Venue

28 USC 1391

Change of Venue

28 USC 1404

Dismiss or Transfer if Improper Venue

28 USC 1406

Erie (Hanna I)

Rules of Decision Act

Hanna (Hanna II)

Rules Enabling Act

Time for Appeals (30d after entry of judgment)

FRAP 4(a)

Interlocutory Appeals

28 USC 1292