ex1. State which court(s) have jurisdiction as to each of these lawsuits:

(a) Pat wants to sue his next-door neighbor Dorothy, claiming that Dorothy promised

to sell him her house.

(b) Paula, who lives in New York City, wants to sue Dizzy Movie Theatres, whose

principal place of business is Dallas. She claims that while she was in Texas

on holiday, she was injured by their negligent maintenance of a stairway. She

claims damages of $30,000.

(c) Phil lives in Tennessee. He wants to sue Dick, who lives in Ohio. Phil claims

that Dick agreed to sell him 3,000 acres of farmland in Ohio, worth over $2

million.

(d) Pete, incarcerated in a federal prison in Kansas, wants to sue the U.S. government.

He claims that his treatment by prison authorities violates three federal

statutes.

plain the solution for each one of these cases