LAW 706Adv Civ Proced Complex Lit Sem

Catalog

Using statutes and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as tools in civil litigation. Topics covered include strategy, purposes, and tactics of class action litigation; shareholder derivative suits; injunctions, temporary restraining orders, and stays; appealable orders, interlocutory appeals under 28 U.S.C. Section 1292 (b), writs of mandamus and prohibition; civil motions practice; judicial panel on multidistrict litigation; and award of attorneys' fees to prevailing parties by statute, from a common fund or under Common Benefit Doctrine.