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Question 3. While driving his car in Virginia, Carpe Diem, a resident of North Carolina, struck Butt, a resident of Alaska. As a result of the accident, Butt suffered more than $80,000 in medical expenses. Butt would like to know if he personally serves the proper paper to Diem whether he can obtain jurisdiction against Diem from damages in the following courts:
A. Alaska state trail court
B. U.S Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit (includes Alaska)
C. Virginia State Court
D. Virginia federal district court
4. Sam Simpleton, resident of Kansas, and Nellie Naive, a resident of Missouri, each bought $85,000 in stock at local offices in Theo homes states from Evil Stockbrokers, Inc. (Evil), a business incorporated in Delaware with its principal place of business in Kansas. Both Simpleton and Naive believe that they were cheated by Evil and would like to sue it for fraud. Assuming that no federal questions is at issue, assess the accuracy of the following statement:
A. Simpleton can sue Evil in a Kansas state trail court
B. Simpleton can sue Evil in a federal district court in Kansas
C. Naive can sue Evil in Missouri state trail court
D.Naive can sue Evil in a federal district court in Missouri.
For this assignment, students are required to answer questions 3 and 4 from pages 65 and 66 of the text book, at the end of Chapter 3. (Question 3 starts with "While driving his car in Virginia," and Question 4 starts with "Sam Simpleton"). Answers must be submitted via this Assignment Link. (If you have trouble with the "turn it in" Moodle function, you may email your answers to me directly, but the answers must still be submitted on time). Students may work in groups (and I encourage same), if they would like. For group work, each student must turn in the assignment to the instructor. (I get this question a lot- question 3 is not multiple choice, and students must answer each subsection). Credit for this assignment is given for timely submission and not for correct answers. I will post the answers and explanation after the assignment submission period closes.
**Please note that the page numbers in the different text book editions vary. In all versions the questions are at the end of the chapter and will begin with the words noted above.