Legal Opinion
Nightingale Home Healthcare, Inc. v. Anodyne Therapy, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 21, 2009No. 09-2523PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff appeals from an adverse judgment in what began as a diversity suit, but is most securely within federal jurisdiction if recharacterized as a federal- question suit in which the plaintiffs state-law claims are within the federal courts’ supplemental jurisdiction. 28 U.S.C. § 1367. The reason for this convoluted approach to jurisdiction is that there is serious doubt (as we’ll see) whether the plaintiff ever had a good-faith basis for claiming damages in excess of $75,000, the jurisdictional minimum for a diversity case. The suit was filed in an Indiana state…
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