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Litigation and inequality: federal diversity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958

Edward A. Purcell
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • 1. Origins of a Social Litigation System (page 13)
  • 2. The Social Structure of Party Inequality and the Informal Legal Process (page 28)
  • 3. The Federal Common Law (page 59)
  • 4. The Battle for Forum Control, I: The Jurisdictional Amount and the Limits of Corporate Liability (page 87)
  • 5. The Battle for Forum Control, II: Joinder and the Limits of the System (page 104)
  • 6. Removal and the Problems of Local Prejudice: Three Perspectives on the System (page 127)
  • 7. Contraction and Evolution: The System After 1910 (page 148)
  • 8. The Rise of Interstate Forum Shopping (page 177)
  • 9. Tactical Escalation in Insurance Litigation (page 200)
  • 10. Disintegration (page 217)
  • 11. Retrospective: History, Procedure, and the Social Role of the Federal Courts (page 244)
  • Notes (page 293)
  • Index (page 419)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 81.2 (Sep. 1994): 717 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2081288
AJLH 38.3 (Jul. 1994): 387-388 http://www.jstor.org/stable/845400
MILR 92.6 (May 1994): 1700-1706 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1289603
JSH 60.3 (Aug. 1994): 595-597 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2211030
AHR 99.3 (Jun. 1994): 979-980 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2167929
JEH 53.3 (Sep. 1993): 694-696 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2122436
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Published: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Copyright Holder: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780195360905 (ebook)
  • 9780195073294 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Legal
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