Legal Opinion
Bishop v. General Motors Corp.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided April 29, 1996No. Civil 95-04794PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
IRENAS, District Judge:
Plaintiff Peter Bishop moves to remand his complaint to the state court from which it was removed by defendant General Motors. Because we hold that Bishop’s claim does not meet the amount in controversy required to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction, and because we decline to treat attorneys’ fees or highly speculative punitive damages as aggregable for purposes of meeting the amount in controversy, plaintiffs motion to remand will be granted.
I. BACKGROUND
Defendant General Motors (“GM”) is the manufacturer of the Chevrolet Lumina, Buick Regal,…
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