Amazon.com description: Product Description: This low-cost paperback book is designed to serve as both a Rulebook and Case Supplement to be used in conjunction with any of the existing civil procedure casebooks. It enables civil procedure professors in California schools to teach this subject from a comparative perspective, exposing students to the system of procedure in both the California state and federal court systems. Updated selection of California appellate cases, including edited versions of Dowden v. Superior Court (Cal. App. 1999) (on California’s work product privilege) and Scheiding v. Dinwiddie Construction Co. (Cal. App. 1999) (on the operation of summary judgment in California’s courts).