Bell v. Hershey Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating defendant seeking to invoke federal jurisdiction through removal “has the burden to prove the requisite amount by a preponderance of the evidence” (quotation omitted)
• “Where, as here, state law forbids pleading a specific amount in the complaint, any attempt to do so is a legal nullity.”
• “The proponent of diversity jurisdiction has the burden of proving the amount in controversy exceeds the jurisdictional minimum.” (citation omitted)
• “The proponent of diversity jurisdiction has the burden of proving that the amount in controversy exceeds the jurisdictional minimum.” (citation omitted)
• “The proponent of diversity jurisdiction has the burden of proving the amount in controversy exceeds the jurisdictional minimum.” (citation omitted)
• “The proponent of diversity jurisdiction has the burden of proving that the □ amount in controversy exceeds the jurisdictional minimum.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).