ISBN-13: 978-0-538-45399-8 The Legal Environment of Business

Case:

After reading Chapter 2, prepare your answer to the following questions, in a WORD document, and submit online into the D2l Discussion by clicking on Discussion on Court procedures -- Alfonso's vs Roberto's. To submit your answer, click on Start a New Thread. Enter a subject / tile of your own, cut & paste your answer into the box provided, and Post. Then, you will be able to read your classmates's online submissions. Please reply to at least two of your classmates, to complete this discussion assignment:

Alfonso's Cuisine is a lunch-cart business. It occupies a street corner in Texarkana, a city that straddles the border of Arkansas and Texas. Across the street -- and across the state line, which runs down the middle of the street -- is Roberto's Tacos. The two businesses compete for customers. Recently, Alfonso has begun to suspect that Roberto's is engaging in competitive behavior that is illegal. Alfonso's manager overheard several of Roberto's employees discussing these illegal competitive tactics while on a break at a nearby Starbucks. Alfonso files a lawsuit against Roberto's in a federal court based upon diversity jurisdiction.

QUESTIONS:

1). Discusss whether or not Roberto's has a basis to file a motion claiming that the federal court lacks jurisdiction over this dispute.