Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Contains more than 2,000 new citations not found in the previous edition. One of the significant additions to is a discussion of procedure after removal of a case from state court, an area not covered in previous editions. Some particularly important points included in this discussion are the time limits for some motions to remand, a federal judge’s lack of jurisdiction to reconsider remand order once that judge has entered such order, and a federal appellate court’s lack of jurisdiction to hear an appeal of remand order.