T or F When parties in a lawsuit are required to be joined, they are sometimes referred to as indispensable parties.

T or F Statutes allowing states to exercise jurisdiction over nonresident defendants are known as long-arm statutes.

Two groups of students complete a reading assignment in school.  One group does so with a paper book, the other with a digital book.  Which group scored higher on multiple choice recall and short answer comprehension questions that were based upon their readings according to the study cited by our authors? 

Stevens, a citizen of the state of Oklahoma, was involved in an automobile accident with Jackson, a citizen of the state of Alabama. Stevens is injured and wishes to sue. T or F If the accident happened in Oklahoma, the state courts of Oklahoma could not exercise personal jurisdiction over Jackson because he is not a citizen of that state.

T or F A third-party complaint, unlike the cross-claim and counterclaim, is a separate pleading.

T or F Once a complaint and summons have been served on the defendant, settlement negotiations must stop.

T or F When Berkshire has any need to communicate with Saldivar, he should identify himself as a “member of the firm of Schneider & Castillo”; he should never refer to himself as a paralegal.

Piazza, a pedestrian, was injured when struck by a vehicle driven by Delaney, who ran a stop sign. At the time of the accident, Delaney, an interior designer, was on his way to a client’s home. The vehicle that Delaney was driving was owned by Exquisite Homes, the company Delaney worked for. In fact, Exquisite Homes is an incorporated business whose legal corporate name is DGA, Inc. The business is a small corporation whose shareholders are Delaney, Gregorio, and Allen. They are also the directors and officers of the corporation. Piazza wishes to sue for his injuries. T or F Piazza would probably sue for a type of damage known as compensatory damages.

T or F Delaney should not be named as a defendant in this lawsuit, because he is a director and officer of the corporation.

T or F Brady would be allowed to prepare a draft of the complaint to be filed in the action.