Legal Opinion
Ellis v. Blum
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 18, 1981No. 354, Docket 80-6133PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
As argued to us, this appeal from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing plaintiff’s amended complaint for want of jurisdiction presented a veritable nightmare of jurisdictional and mootness problems. While the case was under advisement, Congress passed and the President signed the Federal Question Jurisdictional Amendments Act of 1980, 94 Stat. 2369, abolishing the amount-in-controversy requirement in federal question cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1331(a), with respect to all defendants.1 Section 4 of the Act provides that it “shall apply…
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3Cited by164 opinions
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