· 4/14/2011
Blomberg v. Service Corp. International
Citations
- 639 F.3d 761
- 17 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 851
- 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 7681
- 2011 WL 1405144
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that the district court required more than it should have from the defendant in establishing jurisdiction
- reversing district court’s remand order where defendant told a plausible story about how the amount in controversy exceeded the statutory minimum
- reversing district court’s remand order where defendant told a plausible story about how the amount in controversy exceeded the statutory minimum
- removing party’s “good-faith estimate is acceptable if it is plausible and adequately supported by the evidence”
- reversing district court’s remand order where defendant told a plausible story about how the amount in controversy exceeded the statutory minimum
- noting the defendant could have done more to support its amount-in-controversy arguments, such as “estimating the attorneys’ fees and punitive damages recoverable in unpaid wage cases”
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Judges: Posner, Wood, Hamilton
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