Topic and Questions We Can Help You To Answer
Paper Instructions:

You will be required to refer to your text in order to prepare responses to specific tasks and questions. Please note that each of your answers should not exceed one page, double spaced.

PLEASE ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING: (I will upload photocopies of the chapters at a later time)

Question 6.1, page 91
Question 7.1, page 101
Question 7.3, page 109


Required Reading
Chapters 5, 6, 7 Allen & Finch, An Illustrated Guide to Civil Procedure (2nd Edition, Wolters Kluwer Press) 2011.


Additional Required Resources
Text of the Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938):

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4671607337309792720&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr or

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0304_0064_ZO.html

Understanding the Erie case is one of the foundational requirements to figuring out which law to apply to a given case. This is known as the “choice-of-law” or “conflict-of-law” doctrine. It is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp early in the study of law. Carefully read Chapter 5 and then read the entire Erie case. If your head hasn’t exploded, begin helping each other decipher the rules presented below.