1. 
   Individual Assignment: State of Confusion
   Paper
   
   

The State of Confusionenacted a
statute requiring all trucks and towing trailers that use its highways to use a
B-type truck hitch. This hitch is manufactured by only one manufacturer in
Confusion. The result of this statutory requirement is that any trucker who
wants to drive through Confusion must stop and have the new hitch installed, or
detour around the State of Confusion.
The federal government has no regulations concerning these truck hitches when
used on the nation’s highways. Tanya Trucker, who owns a trucking company
headquartered in the State of Denial,
is not happy about the additional expense this statute imposes on her business.
She intends to file suit against the State ofConfusion to overturn the statute.

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  Write a 1,500- to
  1,700-word paper addressing the following questions:

• 
  Utilizing
  the legal concepts of personal jurisdiction and subject matter jurisdiction, in
  what type of court and in what location must Tanya file the lawsuit?
• 
  What
  legal issues will Tanya’s attorney use to argue that the Confusion statute is
  an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce, such as her trucking
  business? What defenses will Confusion’s attorney use to counter Tanya’s case?
  From your research, analyze which side should prevail?
• 
  Set
  forth in detail what are the stages of a civil suit?