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Author Purcell, Edward A.

Title Litigation and inequality [electronic resource] : federal diversity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958 / Edward A. Purcell, Jr.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 446 p. ; 25 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Origins of a Social Litigation System -- The Social Structure of Party Inequality and the Informal Legal Process -- The Federal Common Law -- The Battle for Forum Control, I: The Jurisdictional Amount and the Limits of Corporate Liability -- The Battle for Forum Control, II: Joinder and the Limits of the System -- Removal and the Problems of Local Prejudice: Three Perspectives on the System -- Contraction and Evolution: The System After 1910 -- The Rise of Interstate Forum Shopping -- Tactical Escalation in Insurance Litigation -- Disintegration -- Retrospective: History, Procedure, and the Social Role of the Federal Courts
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Jurisdiction -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Civil procedure -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Courts -- United States -- History.
Actions and defenses -- United States -- History.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 0195073290 9780195073294 (DLC) 91035869
Standard No. 2027/heb07921 hdl

 
    
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