Litigation and inequality : federal diversity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958 / Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
1992
KF8858 .P87 1992 (Map It)
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Title
Litigation and inequality : federal diversity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958 / Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Call Number
KF8858 .P87 1992
ISBN
0195073290 :
Description
x, 446 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24626712
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-418) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
3
1
Origins of a Social Litigation System
13
2
The Social Structure of Party Inequality and the Informal Legal Process
28
3
The Federal Common Law
59
4
The Battle for Forum Control, I: The Jurisdictional Amount and the Limits of Corporate Liability
87
5
The Battle for Forum Control, II: Joinder and the Limits of the System
104
6
Removal and the Problems of Local Prejudice: Three Perspectives on the System
127
7
Contraction and Evolution: The System After 1910
148
8
The Rise of Interstate Forum Shopping
177
9
Tactical Escalation in Insurance Litigation
200
10
Disintegration
217
11
Retrospective: History, Procedure, and the Social Role of the Federal Courts
244
Notes
293
Index
419