Legal Reasoning Fact Scenario V:
Rapunzel, who lives in Massachusetts, works in research and development for Tower Corporation at one of the company's facilities in Massachusetts. Tower Corporation is a hair products company whose headquarters is in Connecticut and whose primary state of incorporation is Delaware. Recently, she applied for a promotion, but the position was awarded to Rumpelstiltskin, a man from another department with much less experience and fewer qualifications. Rapunzel is very disappointed and is upset because she has noticed a pattern and practice of discrimination on the basis of gender at Tower and she decides to sue Tower Corporation based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (a Federal statute) and Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 151B, §1 et al. (a Massachusetts statute.) After exhausting her administrative remedies, as is required by the statutes, she decides to proceed in court.Refer to Legal Reasoning Fact Scenario V:
Which of the following must be considered in order to determine in which court Rapunzel can file her claim?
Whether the case can be tried in federal court and which courts have personal jurisdiction over Rapunzel.
Whether the case can be tried in federal court, only.
Which courts have personal jurisdiction, only.
A substantive analysis of gender discrimination laws at both the state and federal level.