Baba-Dainja EL v. AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding amount in controversy not sufficiently alleged even when Plaintiff asserted that he was owed over $2 billion in damages
• explaining the sovereign citizen belief that the United States government uses “American citizens as collateral,” and that this permits them to charge “their debt to the Treasury Department” (internal quotation omitted)
• “[O]nce a court determines it lacks jurisdiction over a claim, it perforce lacks jurisdiction to make any determination of the merits of the underlying claim.”
• “The fact that the plaintiff alleged an amount in controversy in excess of $75,000 . . . does not establish that this is the amount in controversy.”
• “The fact that the plaintiff alleged an amount in controversy in excess of $75,000 . . . does not establish that this is the amount in controversy.”
• “When a case of which the court has jurisdiction is dismissed because it . . . [is] frivolous .. . , the dismissal is a merits determination and is therefore with prejudice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).