hahahahaha holy shit this is definitely a lolsuit then. What kind of practicing attorney thinks they can successfully sue some random Illinois resident in Texas state court and have it get past jurisdictional arguments? I'm seriously thinking the grieving family went attorney shopping until they found someone with more greed than ethics to go "yes, dear" to all their batshit requests to sUE eVEryOnE
As an American citizen who resides abroad, Fredrick is in a
really good position to defeat jurisdictional arguments from federal court. Diversity Jurisdiction for federal court only applies to
citizens of other nations and
citizens of other US states. He's a US citizen so diversity jurisdiction fails there, and he's not a resident of any other US state since he lives in the fucking Phillipines, so federal courts will just shrug their shoulders and be like "whelp, good luck suing him somewhere else".
In 2010, Plaintiff and Defendant were passengers on a U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to Munich, Germany. Defendant, while waiting to use the…
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