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Clara lives in Kansas City, Kansas, and files a lawsuit against her employer, Target, Inc., in a state court in Kansas City, Missouri alleging that Target violated Missouri’s labor laws relating to minimum wage and overtime pay. The amount in controversy is $90,000. Target is incorporated in Delaware and has its corporate headquarters in Minnesota. Target filed a motion asking the court to remove the case from state court and send the lawsuit to an appropriate federal court instead. What is the most likely outcome regarding Target’s motion to remove the lawsuit to federal court?

Which of the following is not a type of warranty discussed in the textbook?

Jack attends a minor league baseball game in Missouri. While he’s there, the mascot launches tightly wrapped t-shirts into the stands using a cannon that shoots the shirts out at speeds up to 50 miles per hour. Jack was sitting in the second row and carefully watching the game, paying no attention to the mascot and his t-shirt cannon. While he was focused on the game, the mascot launched a t-shirt out of the cannon that whacked Jack in the face and broke his nose. This required surgery to repair. Jack sued the minor league team for damages caused by the mascot’s t-shirt cannon. If the minor league team defends itself in this lawsuit and argues Jack assumed the risk of being hit by a t-shirt, why might a Missouri court disagree and rule in Jack’s favor?

Spurgeon brought a suit against George’s Bank alleging he was enticed into purchasing a defective product and claiming an intentional or negligent failure to warn of a defective product (i.e., his mortgage loan). Will a court find that Spurgeon’s mortgage loan is a product?

The Pauli exclusion principle states that orbitals may hold no more than two electrons with the same direction of spin.

The holding of Hamer v. Sidway could best be described in which of the following?

“When filling orbitals of equal energy, electrons fill them singly first with parallel spins.” This is known as

The volume of a liquid  is 3.975 ml. Which digit is estimated?

What happens to the volume of a gas when you double the number of moles of gas? (temperature and pressure are constant)

What is the concentration of H⁺ (or H3O+) in  2.0 M acetic acid, HC2H3O2?