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Civil Procedure Simulations: Bridge to Practice 2nd Edition Michael Vitiello ISBN 9781636592787

Civil Procedure professors, perhaps more than most legal educators, appreciate the importance of showing students how highly technical procedural rules operate in real human disputes. That insight motivated the first edition of Civil Procedure Simulations: Bridge to Practice more than a decade ago—and it remains just as relevant today. So why a second edition?

Since the publication of the first edition, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have confronted a host of new and increasingly complex procedural questions. Rather than clarifying how due process “minimum contacts” analysis applies to internet-based cases—the central personal jurisdiction issue in the first edition—the Supreme Court has instead complicated the doctrine as it applies even to traditional, brick-and-mortar defendants.

The second edition revisits familiar characters in a newly evolved legal landscape. The investigative reporter Mike Ridge returns, but his circumstances have changed: he has been fired by his online employer and now works for a traditional newspaper preparing to publish an explosive story about a young lawyer. Valentina Rossi, who is considering a run for public office, becomes the subject of allegations involving an illicit relationship with her former boss and the termination of an unwanted pregnancy. While the facts may appear sensational, they raise a serious and unresolved procedural question that has divided federal courts: does a state’s anti-SLAPP statute apply in federal court?

The new simulations use these updated scenarios to immerse students in contemporary procedural dilemmas, bridging doctrine and practice while confronting the unsettled issues that modern litigators face.

Civil Procedure Simulations: Bridge to Practice 2nd Edition Michael Vitiello ISBN 9781636592787, 978-1636592787 & 9798887864334

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Michael Vitiello