Effect of Failure to Plead (Rule 9, Secs. 1 and 2)

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1. Does a defendant’s denial of the complaint itself necessarily set up an affirmative counterclaim for relief?
2. A defendant omits a genuinely permissive, independent counterclaim. No other preclusion or prescription bar exists. The…
3. The record conclusively establishes all requirements of a prior-judgment bar, although the answer omitted that defense.…
4. A defendant possessed a compulsory transaction-connected damages counterclaim when answering. It merely denied liabilit…
5. One defendant omits a claim against a co-defendant that is wholly unrelated to the transaction, occurrence or countercl…
6. A genuinely permissive independent counterclaim was omitted. Explain the limits of relying solely on Rule9 Section2 to …
7. A defendant only denied liability and omitted its existing compulsory damages counterclaim. No cure occurred before fin…
8. Two co-defendants have a wholly unrelated claim that is stipulated not to be a Rule6 cross-claim. Explain why co-party …