Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton, Hershkoff, Steinman, and McKenzie's Civil Procedure Supplement, for Use with All Pleading and Procedure Casebooks, 2025-2026

This supplement is an up-to-date source for courses in Civil Procedure as well as in advanced procedure topics, and can be used with all pleading and procedure casebooks. It includes the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and accompanying notes of advisory committees; selected provisions from the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, and proposed federal legislation regulating courts and procedure; state constitutions and state jurisdictional statutes; federal local rules (including local rules governing counsel’s use of Artificial Intelligence); sample judicial orders (including in class actions and MDL); and provisions from the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. It also contains edited versions of recent Supreme Court decisions of interest, including Fuld v. PLO (2025), on personal jurisdiction and the Fifth Amendment; Perttu v. Richards (2025), on the Seventh Amendment and administrative exhaustion in prisoner’s suits; Royal Canin U.S.A. v. Wullschleger (2025), on post-removal deletion of federal-law claims and supplemental jurisdiction over state-law claims; Harrington v. Purdue Pharma (2024), on the use of bankruptcy proceedings to resolve mass tort liability; SEC v. Jarkesy (2024), on the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in SEC enforcement proceedings; and Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (2023), on personal jurisdiction based on state registration statutes. In addition, the supplement provides materials for experiential learning, including a Flow Chart of a Civil Action, an Illustrative Litigation Problem with Sample Documents, and the complaints in Twombly, Iqbal, and Erickson v. Pardus.