Author Archives: A. Benjamin Spencer

VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL • BRANSTETTER LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROGRAM CALL FOR PAPERS

Vanderbilt Law School and the Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program announce the 2012 New Voices in Civil Justice Scholarship … Continue reading →

Professor Brooke D. Coleman (Seattle) has just posted an article entitled The Vanishing Plaintiff on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

What if restrictive procedural rules kept cases like Bakke v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal., Monell v. Dept. of Soc. Servs… Continue reading →

Per Pitts v. Terrible Herbst, Inc. — F.3d —-, 2011 WL 3449473 (9th Cir. Aug. 9, 2011):

Aside from dismissing Pitts’s entire action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, the district court alternatively dismissed Count 2 of the complaint beca… Continue reading →

Symposium Call for Papers: Miller’s Courts: Media, Rules, Policy, and the Future of Access to Justice
April 13, 2012 University of Oregon White Stag Building Portland, Oregon

Oregon Law Review is currently accepting submissions for the forthcoming… Continue reading →

The Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Civil Procedure invites the submission of papers for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the AALS January 4-8, 2012, in Washington, D.C.

The topic of our panel will be “Procedural Reform: Rulemaking v. … Continue reading →

Per Janvey v. Alguire — F.3d —-, 2011 WL 2937949 (5th Cir. July 22, 2011): The circuit split concerns the power of a district court to issue an injunction while arbitration is pending. The Fifth Circuit acknowledged the circuit split in … Continue reading →

U.S. Law Week (7/19/11) has published a summary analysis of the Supreme Court’s civil litigation cases from this term. Here is an excerpt:Court Reins in Class ActionsWal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes: Avoided employment discrimination “Armageddon” for… Continue reading →

Professor Charles Campbell at Faulkner University, Jones School of Law was kind enough to share the following information:Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated, and remanded one personal jurisdiction case, Dow Chemical Canada ULC v. … Continue reading →

The Supreme Court has issued a unanimous opinion in Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations v. Brown, rejecting the claim that general jurisdiction can be asserted over a foreign corporation whose product caused harm outside of the forum state but who also ha… Continue reading →

The Supreme Court has decided J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, No. 09-1343. Unfortunately, the Court did not resolve the issue left unresolved in Asahi, namely what is required of a defendant who places a product in the stream of commerce to s… Continue reading →