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Civil Procedure Keyed to Marcus
Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown
Citation:
564 U.S. 915 (2011)
ProfessorBrittany L. Raposa
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Two boys, both soccer players from North Carolina, were killed when a bus they were riding in overturned on its way to an airport in in Paris, France. The accident was attributed to a defective tire manufactured in Turkey at the plant of a foreign subsidiary of a United States tire company. The boys’ parents sued the foreign subsidiaries in North Carolina state court. The subsidiaries objected to the state court’s jurisdiction. The trial court upheld jurisdiction. The appellate court affirmed, finding that the subsidiaries’ tires had reached North Carolina through the stream of commerce such that the North Carolina courts could exercise general jurisdiction. The state supreme court declined discretionary review.
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