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HannaDo Hanna w/o slides
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Hanna v. Plumer - Background• What Court on What Basis?
• Federal Court• Diversity
• Nature of Underlying Action?• Negligence
• Defendant?• Executor
• Nature of Defense?• No timely notice to executor • Not S/L
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Hanna v. Plumer - Notice• How was notice actually given?
• Left Summons w/ Exec’s wife
• At home
• D had actual notice
• What did state law require?
• In hand notice to executor or
• Filing in Probate Court
• What does federal law require?
• Service – Which could include
Why would state have
such a rule?
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How Does a FRCivP Get Enacted?• Advisory Committee Recommends
Rule to the Supreme Court
• Court Either
–Rejects Rule
–Transmits It to Congress
–Modifies It and Transmits It
• Transmitted Rule Becomes Effective Unless Congress Affirmatively Acts to Disapprove It
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What is the Authority for Following This Process?
The Rules Enabling Act
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What Limits Does the REA Place on the Creation of Federal Rules?
• They must be constitutional.
• They must be “procedural.”
• They must not
–Abridge
–Modify, or
–Enlarge
Substantive rights.
What is the Effect of a Properly Enacted FRCivP?
• It trumps all conflicting laws
• At least all conflicting federal laws
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Under Hanna?
• When will a FRCivP trump state practice?
–Whenever
• They conflict, and
• The FRCivP Complies With
–The Constitution &
–The Rules Enabling Act.
• What Must One Do to Establish that a FRCivP Violates the REA?
• Overcome Prima Facie Judgment of Advisory Committee, Court, & Congress, &
• Show That Rule is
• Not Procedural &
• Not even arguably procedural.
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Substantive
Procedural
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Substantive
Procedural
Clearly
Procedural
Arguably Procedural
OK
OK
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• What If the Federal Practice Is Not Based on a Federal Rule (or Statute or the Constitution)?
• Look to “Twin Aims of Erie”
–Avoiding Forum Shopping
–Avoiding Inequity
Note:
We are looking at the source of the federal practice – not the source of the conflicting state practice.
• What will lead to forum shopping
• Differences that have a significant effect on the outcome
• If the difference predictably favors one side and
• If the difference is apparent at the forum selection time.
• What will lead to inequity
• Differences that will give a significant advantage
• To those who have the option of asserting federal diversity jurisdiction.
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Discussion Hypo Under
Hanna
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Burden of Proof
Bifurcated Trial
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