Fall 2025
Professor(s):
Robert Ragazzo (FACULTY)
Credits: 4
Course Areas: 1st Year - Section B
Time: 10:30a-12:00p MTW Location: 102A
Course Outline: This course provides an introduction to the civil adjudicative process, primarily that of the federal courts, including jurisdiction, pleading, dispositive motions, discovery, and trial procedures.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule:
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Required Course)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton, Hershkoff, Steinman & McKenzie, Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (West 13th ed. 2022) and the 2025- 2026 Supplement thereto
The Supplement will be available in mid-August 2025. The additional
cases referred to in the syllabus will be e-mailed to you during the semester. I will assign
Supplement pages as soon as I receive the Supplement.
