Motions Attacking the Pleadings and Jurisdiction

This chapter treats motion practice attacking the pleadings as a post-Twiqbal craft: it walks through Rule 12(b) attacks on service, form, specificity, and substance; the modern plausibility standard and its tactical implications; and motions challenging subject-matter and personal jurisdiction, venue (including transfer and multi-district), the abstention doctrines, and removal-and-remand procedures. Joinder, class actions and certification, intervention, and substitution of parties round out the chapter, with a closing section on LLM-assisted motion drafting. Best suited for a civil procedure course’s motion-practice unit or a pretrial litigation course pairing doctrinal depth with drafting exercises, the chapter gives professors enough texture to set both written-motion and oral-argument assignments.