Legal Opinion
Darla S. Sparrow and Terry R. Sparrow v. Harlan Heller
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 9, 1997No. 96-3225PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
This is a diversity ease in which the district court dismissed the plaintiffs’ complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction because they failed to plead the jurisdictional amount, more than $50,000. 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a) (1996). (Section 1332(a) has since been amended to set the jurisdictional minimum at more than $75,000. The amendment, which went into effect in January 1997, need not concern us.) Following the district court’s dismissal of their complaint and entry of judgment in favor of the defendants, the plaintiffs, Darla and Terry Sparrow, sought to have the…
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