Legal Opinion
Estate of Thomson Ex Rel. Estate of Rakestraw v. Toyota Motor Corp. Worldwide
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 30, 2008No. 07-3813PublishedCited by 156 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
AVERN COHN, District Judge.
This is a tort case. Plaintiffs-Appellants, the Estate of Dorothy Thomson (“the Estate”) and Colleen Miller sued Defendants-Appellees, Toyota Motor Corporation Worldwide (“TMC”) and Thrifty Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc. (“Thrifty”) in the Northern District of Ohio following a car accident in South Africa in which Colleen Miller and Dorothy Thomson were injured. Thomson subsequently died from her injuries. The district court granted TMC’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and sua sponte dismissed plaintiffs’ claims against Thrifty under the…
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