Legal Opinion
Travelers Property Casualty v. Good
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 2012No. 11-2790PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
This case is an appeal from the district court’s discretionary decision not to exercise jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action because parallel state court proceedings were pending. We affirm the dismissal, but on a different ground. After exploring some of the more arcane borders of federal jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship, we conclude that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. The plaintiffs’ small disputes with many claimants cannot be aggregated to satisfy the amount-in-controversy requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a).
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