Legal Opinion
Cohen v. Office Depot, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 1999No. 98-4787PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Cheryl Cohen appeals the district court’s dismissal of her Florida state law deceptive advertising suit against Office Depot. The district court struck Cohen’s prayer for punitive damages from her complaint for failure to comply with a Florida statute requiring a plaintiff to obtain leave of court before requesting punitive damages. Finding that the other relief Cohen requested did not satisfy the amount-in-controversy requirement for diversity jurisdiction, the court dismissed her suit on jurisdictional grounds. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
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- Cohen v. Office Depot, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1999