Chapter 2 Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction, Removal, and Other Prefiling Considerations

Index

• 2.1 Strategic Questions—do You Want to Be in Federal Court?
• 2.2 Constitutional and Statutory Foundations
• 2.3 Mechanics of Establishing or Challenging Jurisdiction
• 2.4 Personal Jurisdiction
• 2.5 Federal Question Jurisdiction
• 2.6 Diversity of Citizenship/alienage Jurisdiction
• 2.7 Removal Jurisdiction
• 2.8 Supplemental Jurisdiction
• 2.9 Venue
• 2.10 Preemption and Abstention
• 2.11 Eleventh Amendment and Miscellaneous Other Restraints on Exercise of Jurisdiction
• 2.12 Magistrate Judge Jurisdiction
• 2.13 Service of Process and Corporate Disclosure Statement