Legal Opinion
Tapscott v. MS Dealer Service Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 20, 1996No. 95-6055PublishedCited by 486 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACK, Circuit Judge:
Appellants challenge the exercise of diversity jurisdiction by the federal district court over a state law action. Appellee Lowe’s Home Centers (Lowe’s) removed the putative class action, and the district court denied Appellants’ motion to remand with respect to Lowe’s. The district court held the amount-in-controversy requirement was satisfied by aggregating punitive damages and diversity of citizenship was not defeated by a fraudulent joinder. We affirm and hold where a plaintiff makes an unspecified claim for damages, the defendant must prove the amount in controversy…
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