2 possible parts of pretrial stage - ✔✔- request summary judgement
- request pretrial conference (plan course of trial)
3 purposes of discovery - ✔✔- perserve evidence
- limit element of surprise
- encourage settlement
3 types of answers to complaint - ✔✔- admit/deny/idk
- legal excuse
- counterclaim
3 types of decisions by the court - ✔✔- majority opinion
- concurring opinion (agree but for diff reasoning)
- dissenting (minority not in agreement)
3 types of monetary damages (remedies in civil litigation) - ✔✔-
compensatory
- punitive or exemplary
- nominal
, 3 ways of jurisdiction over a corporation - ✔✔- where the corporation
was incorporated
- where the corporation has headquarters/main plant
- where corporation is doing business
4 facts about federal judges - ✔✔- nominated by the president
- confirmed by majority vote in US senate
- lifetime appointment
- only removed if congress impeaches them
4 outcomes of appellate court decision - ✔✔- affirmed
- modified (the appellate court decides if errors in law & change the
findings based on evidence that is there)
- reversed
- remanded (sent back for retrial)
4 stages of negotiation - ✔✔1. study issues and info
2. exchange info
3. work your strategy
4. agreement is reached + usually a contract is written
6 basic trial procedures - ✔✔1. pleading state (issue framing)
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