TY  - GEN
AU  -  Purcell, Edward A.
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  Litigation and inequality: federal dive rsity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958 
PY  - 1992///
CY  -  New York
PB  -  Oxford University Press
KW  -  Jurisdiction
KW  -  Social aspects
KW  -  United States
KW  -  History
KW  -  Civil procedure
KW  -  Courts
KW  -  Actions and defenses
N1  -  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
UR  -  htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07921
ER  -