Whew. Just took my CivPro final. This book...eh. It relies too heavily on culling information from cases to demonstrate the various aspects of civil procedure. This approach works fine for some topics, but with civ pro being so technical, many subjects need to be outlined more directly. This casebook doesn't accomplish that, but it does give a good overview of civil procedure, as long as you're not actually relying on it for actual details of the process.