Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—Service of Process—Test of Applicability in Diversity Cases—Hanna v. Plumer, 380 U.S. 460 (1965)

Authors

Alan E. Peterson, University of Nebraska College of Law

Abstract

The import of the Hanna v. Plumer opinion in its entirety is that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have been accorded a new priority and certainty of application in future federal court diversity of citizenship cases

I. Introduction

II. The Procedural Limitation on the Federal Rules: Two Distinct Tests for Two Contexts of the Issue … A. Caveat on the Outcome-Determinative Principle … B. The Validity of the Federal Rule—The Hanna Test

Recommended Citation

Alan E. Peterson, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—Service of Process—Test of Applicability in Diversity Cases—Hanna v. Plumer, 380 U.S. 460 (1965), 45 Neb. L. Rev. 624 (1966)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol45/iss3/12