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ESTATE OF THOMSON EX REL. RAKESTRAW v. TOYOTA MOTOR CORP.

No. 07-3813.

545 F.3d 357 (2008)

ESTATE OF Dorothy THOMSON, by and through as Co-Personal Representatives of the ESTATE of Vicky RAKESTRAW and Darcy Horvat; Colleen Miller, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION WORLDWIDE; Thrifty Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: July 30, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Douglas P. Desjardins, Clapp, Desjardins & Ely, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Robert A. Brundage, Bingham McCutchen, San Franciso, California, Hilary Sheldon Taylor II, Weston Hurd, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Douglas P. Desjardins, Clapp, Desjardins & Ely, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Hilary Sheldon Taylor II, Weston Hurd, Cleveland, Ohio, Dennis P. Ziemba, Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kelly C. Scandy, Montgomery, Rennie & Jonson, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellees. Erika Z. Jones, Adam C., Sloane, Mayer Brown, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae.

Before: GILMAN and COOK, Circuit Judges; and COHN, District Judge.

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...

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