Catherine Gardynski-Leschuck v. Ford Motor Company

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that the attorneys’ fees incurred at the time of the suit should be used in determining whether the jurisdictional threshold has been met
• “[P]ost-filing events that increase defendant’s outlay cannot create jurisdiction that was lacking at the outset.”
• “[P]ost-filing events that increase defendant’s outlay cannot create jurisdiction that was lacking at the outset.”
• \[J]urisdiction depends on the state of affairs when the case begins; what happens later is irrelevant.\
• “[J]urisdiction depends on the state of affairs when the case begins; what happens later is irrelevant.”
• under the Magnuson-Moss Act, “an aggrieved customer may sue on state-law claims in federal court, whether or not the parties are of diverse citizenship”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).