Arnold v. Guideone Specialty Mutual Insurance

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ACKER, District Judge.

The court has before it the motion of plaintiffs, Tommy Arnold and Kimberly Gilliland Arnold, to remand the above-styled case to the Circuit Court of Marion County, Alabama, from whence it was removed by defendant, GuideOne Specialty Mutual Insurance Company. Plaintiffs concede that their residences and citizen-ships are diverse from that of defendant, but contend that defendant has not met its burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the amount in controversy, more likely than not, exceeds $75,000, the jurisdictional amount for a…