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The days in which a non-waiver answer has to be filed once a person receives the complaint.
What is 21?
A person has to object to or challenge this in the initial answer of a complaint for it to be valid.
What is personal jurisdiction, venue, and/or insufficient service of process?
This doctrine governs whether state or federal law applies.
What is Erie?
This allows a party to join other parties if claims derive from the same transaction/occurrence or the same series of transactions/occurrences.
What is party joinder?
A summary judgment motion uses this standard for the court to either grant or deny the motion.
What is a genuine dispute of material fact?
The days a person gets to answer a complaint if they waive service of process (in and out of the United States).
What is 60 and 90?
These are the contacts a defendant must have with a forum before specific jurisdiction may be exercised.
What are minimum contacts?
Each side gets this many peremptory challenges in voir dire.
What is 3?
This claim does derive from the same transaction/occurrence as the original party's claim, and the defendant must file this, otherwise they lose it. (Hint: Claim can mean any type of claim)
What is a compulsory counterclaim?
The motion has the same name as its prior "big sister" motion, with one word added.
What is a renewed judgment as a matter of law?
The limit of interrogatories per party.
What is 25?
Federal court have this, as they are usually courts of this.
What is limited jurisidiction?
A judge requires this for establishing discovery production.
What is a discovery conference?
This type of joinder are for nonparties that must be joined to a lawsuit and their absence would be unduly prejudicial to any party's right to a full and fair adjudication.
What is indispensable parties?
A court can ignore errors using this rule if it did not affect substantial rights after a trial has concluded.
What is the harmless error rule?
This timeframe represents the absolute bar for removal after filing the complaint if a case arises under diversity jurisdiction.
What is 1 year?
This rule prevents a defendant from removing a case from state court to federal court. (Hint: This is usually based on diversity jurisdiction and the defendant is a resident of this state.)
What is home-state defendant?
This doctrine enables a party to amend a complaint if the party realizes they need to add a new claim or a new party to their lawsuit.
What is the relation back doctrine?
This is required for a class action to be approved, with the following requirements to be met: commonality, adequacy, numerosity, and typicality.
What is a class action certification?
This precludes prelitigation of issues of fact/law that have already been litigated and necessarily determined in an earlier, final verdict.
What is issue preclusion?
This represents the number of hours a specific discovery device can take.
What is 7?
A case can have this, but not having complete diversity in a diversity jurisdiction case destroys it.
What is supplemental jurisdiction?
A party must demand a jury within this many days after the last pleading.
What is 14 days?
This type of joinder enables a holder of common funds to file a lawsuit against all rival claimants to its common fund, where the holder is usually an insurance company.
What is interpleader?
This valid and final judgment on the merits of a claim bars relitigation of that claim by the same parties or successors. This also applies to claims that should have been raised but weren't.
What is claim preclusion?