Ciaramitaro v. Woods

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AS TO CERTAIN NAMED PLAINTIFFS

KENNEDY, District Judge.

The defendants filed a motion to determine that this action not be maintained as a class action and to dismiss as to twenty (20) named plaintiffs because their individual claims did not meet the jurisdictional requirement that more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) be in controversy.

In a letter dated October 15, 1970 The Honorable Theodore Levin informed the parties that the court had “concluded as a matter of law that the action may not be maintained as a class action because the…