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

question 59

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. Assume the defendants have the case removed from the state court in California to a federal court. Under Erie v. Tompkins what law will the federal court be most likely to apply in deciding the dispute?

• A) the state law of Georgia where Yoshi contracted to rent the airplane
• B) the federal common law
• C) the civil law of Japan because Yoshi is a Japanese native
• D) the state law of Louisiana, because Yoshi was going there
• E) none of the other choices are correct

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