Amoche v. Guarantee Trust Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ruling that “the reasonable probability standard is, to our minds, for all practical purposes identical to the preponderance standard”
• noting that “a federal court may consider which party has better access to the relevant information” when determining the amount in controversy
• noting that determining the amount in controversy “should not devolve into a mini-trial” or “result in extensive and time consuming litigation”
• explaining that “simple multiplication” of a subset of the class members’ damages, as calculated by the defendant, was unwarranted because the defendant’s calculation was “not reliable” and “inflated”
• noting that “deciding whether a defendant has shown a reasonable probability that the amount of controversy exceeds $5 million may well require analysis of what both parties have shown” (emphasis in original)
• noting that “a court’s analysis of the amount in controversy focuses on whether a removing defendant has shown a reasonable probability that more than $5 million is in controversy at the time of removal.” (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).