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| T or F: Neither the court nor any of the parties ever can waive person jurisdiction |
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| T or F: A state court of general jurisdiction may hear a case based upon a federal civil rights statute |
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| T or F: The term "engrossment" is used to indicate that interrogatory questions and their answers related to a particular party are numbered sequentially from one set of interrogatories to the next |
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| T or F: Answers to iterrogatories must be verified by the party to whom they are addressed |
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| T or F: All of the discovery methods provided in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are self-executing |
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| T or F: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure govern procedural matters such as the use of privileged communications in federal civil trials |
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| T or F: The time limitation for responding to a counterclaim is 20 days after the date of its servicce |
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| T or F: A plaintiff may aggregate her claims against a single defendant to reach the minimum dollar amount required to establish federal diversity jurisdiction |
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| T or F: In a federal diversity action, the plaintiff may be able to invoke the federal court's supplemental jurisdiction to file a claim against a third-party defendant |
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| T or F: The usual method of serving process on a corporation is to serve its president |
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| T or F: Interpleader is initiated by one who already is a party to an existing lawsuit |
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| T or F: Depositions cannot be conducted before a civil complaint is filed |
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| T or F: Juries may decide issues related to both law and fact in simple cases |
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| T or F: The pleadings allowed in a federal civil case include complaint, answer, counterclaim, crossclaim, and (sometimes) reply |
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| T or F: A permissive counterclaim is one which requires the court's permission before it can be filed in a civil case |
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| T or F: If a criminal charge is pending, the defendant may not be sued in a related civil case until the criminal case is concluded |
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| T or F: It is unethical for a lawyer knowingly to offer evidence during litigation which he or she knows is perjured |
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| T or F: Interrogatories under Rule 33 may be served on any person who may have personal knowledge of the facts involved in a particular litigation |
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| T or F: Because answers to interrogatories are given under oath, the answering party may use his or her own answers to prove the truth of their content |
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| T or F: A civil action is commenced in federal court when the complaint is filed |
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| T or F: The answer day for interrogatories can be extended without court approval if all parties agree to the extension and if the extension does not interfere with the time for completing discovery, for hearing a motion, or for trial |
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| T or F: Objections to interrogatories must be filed within 10 days after the interrogatoris are served |
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| T or F: If subject matter jurisdiction is defective, the parties may agree among themselves to waive this requirement |
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| T or F: An interlocutory appeal is the method used to obtain appellate review of a discovery order prior to the time of trial |
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| T or F: Summary judgment exists in most state court litigations but no longer exists in federal court litigations |
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| T or F: Scheduling orders are mandatory in federal civil litigation |
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