Dowling v. J. C. Penney Co.

OPINION

WEBER, District Judge.

Defendant’s Answer in this case raised the defense of lack of jurisdictional amount in controversy, and this was repeated in the pretrial narrative. Under the pretrial rules of this court after all discovery is closed the parties must file a pretrial narrative statement and a pretrial stipulation covering all of the issues, evidence, witnesses, exhibits, itemization and damages which will be presented at trial, and by which they are limited and bound. This is supplemented by a recorded pretrial conference. The issue of the requisite jurisdictional amount was…