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28 U.S. Code § 1406 – Cure or waiver of defects

(through July 14, 2022)

(a) The district court of a district in which is filed a case laying venue in the wrong division or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest of justice, transfer such case to any district or division in which it could have been brought.

(b) Nothing in this chapter shall impair the jurisdiction of a district court of any matter involving a party who does not interpose timely and sufficient objection to the venue.

(c) As used in this section, the term “district court” includes the District Court of Guam, the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, and the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and the term “district” includes the territorial jurisdiction of each such court.

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Key Civ Pro Laws (MBE/MEE)

Constitutional Provisions

• Article III, section 2
• Fifth Amendment
• Seventh Amendment
• Fourteenth Amendment

U.S. Code

• Section 1291 – Final decisions of district courts
• Section 1292 – Interlocutory decisions
• Section 1331 – Federal question
• Section 1332 – Diversity
• Section 1335 – Interpleader
• Section 1338 – Intellectual Property
• Section 1359 – Parties collusively joined or made
• Section 1367 – Supplemental jurisdiction
• Section 1391 – Venue generally
• Section 1397 – Interpleader
• Section 1404 – Change of venue
• Section 1406 – Cure or waiver of defects
• Section 1407 – Multidistrict litigation
• Section 1441 – Removal generally
• Section 1446 – Removal procedure
• Section 1447 – Post-removal procedure
• Section 1738 – Full faith and credit
• Section 1870 – Challenges
• Section 2072 – Rules of procedure and evidence; power to subscribe
• Section 2361 – Process and procedure

FRCP

• Rule 3 – Commencing an action
• Rule 4 – Summons
• Rule 6 – Computing and extending time
• Rule 7 – Pleadings allowed
• Rule 8 – General pleading rules
• Rule 9 – Pleading special matters
• Rule 10 – Form of pleadings
• Rule 11 – Signing pleadings, motions, and other papers
• Rule 12 – Defenses and objections
• Rule 13 – Counterclaim and crossclaim
• Rule 14 – Third-party practice
• Rule 15 – Amended and supplemental pleadings
• Rule 16 – Pretrial conferences, scheduling, management
• Rule 19 – Required joinder of parties
• Rule 20 – Permissive joinder of parties
• Rule 22 – Interpleader
• Rule 23 – Class actions
• Rule 24 – Intervention
• Rule 25 – Substitution
• Rule 26 – Duty to disclose
• Rule 30 – Depositions by oral examination
• Rule 31 – Depositions by written questions
• Rule 33 – Interrogatories
• Rule 34 – Producing documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things
• Rule 35 – Physical and mental examinations
• Rule 36 – Requests for admission
• Rule 37 – Failure to make disclosures or to cooperate in discovery
• Rule 38 – Right to a jury trial
• Rule 41 – Dismissal of actions
• Rule 42 – Consolidation; separate trials
• Rule 45 – Subpoena
• Rule 47 – Selecting jurors
• Rule 48 – Number of jurors; verdict; polling
• Rule 49 – Special verdict; general verdict and questions
• Rule 50 – Judgment as a matter of law in a jury trial
• Rule 51 – Instructions to the jury; objections; preserving a claim of error
• Rule 52 – Findings and conclusions by the court; judgment on partial findings
• Rule 54 – Judgment, costs
• Rule 55 – Default
• Rule 56 – Summary judgment
• Rule 59 – New trial; altering or amending a judgment
• Rule 60 – Relief from a judgment or order
• Rule 65 – Injunctions and restraining orders

FRAP

• Rule 4 – Appeal as of right
• Rule 21 – Extraordinary writs