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"[I]n this case the amount in controversy is $75,000 exactly--one penny short of the jurisdictional bar that Congress has set."

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"[I]n this case the amount in controversy is $75,000 exactly--one penny short of the jurisdictional bar that Congress has set." As a result, diversity of citizenship jurisdiction does not exist in federal court, and therefore the case in question must be returned to state court (from whence it had been removed) to be relitigated from the outset. You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 04, 2011 (boomark / email).

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