Fact Pattern 2-1 Yoshi, a Japanese Citizen Working in Atlanta for His Tokyo

question 62

Multiple Choice

Fact Pattern 2-1
Yoshi, a Japanese citizen working in Atlanta for his Tokyo firm, decided to rent an airplane and fly himself to the Annual Catfish and Zydeco festival in Thibodaux, Louisiana. He rented a small plane to fly there. Over Alabama, thunderstorms formed. Because Yoshi was not trained to fly by instruments, he decided to land at the next airport.
As he searched for a runway, Yoshi heard a loud clank followed by silence as the engine died. He tried to land in a field but crashed. While recovering in a rehabilitation center in California, Yoshi filed suit there against the Atlanta Airport and the owners of the airplane, alleging that they were negligent in their maintenance.
-Refer to Fact Pattern 2-1. Yoshi sues defendants $5 million. The defendants may ask the California court to use its:

• A) original jurisdiction to move the suit to a federal court
• B) concurrent jurisdiction to move the suit to federal court
• C) its removal powers to move the suit to a federal court
• D) removal powers to move the suit to a Georgia state court
• E) none of the other choices; the case must be in California state court if Yoshi insists

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