Christopher v. Stanley-Bostitch, Inc.

Plaintiff appeals from the denial of his motion to reconsider an order issued on August 11, 1998, by the federal district court, remanding the case to the state court. Plaintiffs real argument on appeal is with , that portion of the order which purported to hold that the plaintiff was “judicially stopped,” when the case was on remand to the state trial court, from recovering more than $75,000 in damages. We conclude we have jurisdiction to review that portion of the order and hold that once the district court concluded it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the case, it did not retain…