Check the Pleading Rules of Your Own State

question 20

Essay

Check the pleading rules of your own state. Gather examples of local complaints by researching recent editions of legal forms and pleading books, or obtain them from your instructor. Try to locate a full range of examples of complaints that include pleading in the alternative, pleading in the hypothetical,
joined parties, and joined claims and counts. Place them in your systems folder. Add references to the page numbers in this text where samples of specific types of complaints can be located. Add references to or copies of injunction and restraining order forms.

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Definitions:

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Transactive Memory

Transactive memory is a psychological concept explaining how groups collectively store, recall, and share knowledge through the relationships among members.

Metastatements

Communications that provide commentary about other statements, often clarifying or interpreting them.

Persuasive Arguments Theory

View that people in groups are persuaded by novel information that supports their initial position, and thus become more extreme in their endorsement of their initial position.