Litigation and inequality [electronic resource] : federal dive rsity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958 / Edward A. Purc ell, Jr.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.Description: x, 446 p. ; 25 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins of a Social Litigation System -- The Social Structure of Par ty Inequality and the Informal Legal Process -- The Federal Common Law -- The Battle for Forum Control, I: The Jurisdictional Amount and the L imits of Corporate Liability -- The Battle for Forum Control, II: Joind er and the Limits of the System -- Removal and the Problems of Local Pr ejudice: Three Perspectives on the System -- Contraction and Evolution: The System After 1910 -- The Rise of Interstate Forum Shopping -- Tact ical Escalation in Insurance Litigation -- Disintegration -- Retrospect ive: History, Procedure, and the Social Role of the Federal Courts
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.
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