Students and instructors will appreciate these features of Freer's method: - covers all of the major topics in civil procedure, making the book suitable for use with any casebook - each chapter opens with a Defining the Issue section that clearly explains the major concepts, putting the material in context with related areas in commonsensical terms - integrates the topics of the course and emphasizes overarching issues to help students fit the smaller pieces in the larger picture - provides bulleted-listed hypotheticals for especially difficult principles -- such as aggregation and supplemental jurisdiction -- that show students how to apply the doctrine and rules to the facts The book encourages students to have fun with the material by, for instance: - discussing the stories behind some well-known cases and characters in the development of civil procedure, such as the relationship between David Dudley Field, the great procedure reformer, and his brother Stephen Field, the Justice who gave us Pennoyer v. Neff - relating an amusing opinion in which a judge went ballistic wondering why the Mottleys, who had been injured by a railroad, would settle their claims for free passes on the same railroad