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Litigation and inequality, federal diversity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958, Edward A. Purcell, Jr

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Litigation and inequality, federal diversity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958, Edward A. Purcell, Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Litigation and inequality

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

thesesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Edward A. Purcell, Jr

Sub title

federal diversity jurisdiction in industrial America, 1870-1958

Table Of Contents

Origins of a Social Litigation System -- The Social Structure of Party Inequality and the Informal Legal Process -- The Federal Common Law -- The Battle for Forum Control, I: The Jurisdictional Amount and the Limits of Corporate Liability -- The Battle for Forum Control, II: Joinder and the Limits of the System -- Removal and the Problems of Local Prejudice: Three Perspectives on the System -- Contraction and Evolution: The System After 1910 -- The Rise of Interstate Forum Shopping -- Tactical Escalation in Insurance Litigation -- Disintegration -- Retrospective: History, Procedure, and the Social Role of the Federal Courts

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