a) What are the elements of a complaint in a civil case?  What was the equivalent of an answer in this case?

b) What does an answer in a civil case need to do?  How does she say the coverage provides these elements?

c) What is discovery supposed to accomplish in a civil case?  What are some of the different methods of discovery?  What does she say functioned as discovery in this case?

d) What is the equivalent of post-discovery settlement talks she identifies here?

e) What is a “theory of the case?”  What was the Boston Globe’s theory?  What was the archdiocese’s theory?

f) So what was the equivalent of trial here?  What are the various Federal Rules of Evidence she invokes here?  What are the public policy reasons for each of those rules?  How do they each apply in this case (or not)?

g) What is witness impeachment?  What purpose does it serve?  What is the equivalent of it here?