Caufield v. EMC Mortgage Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “defendant was or should have been aware of Fourth Circuit’s standard for removal” and granting plaintiff’s request for fees when defendant’s argument regarding amount in controversy was without “factual basis [i]n the record”
• using the preponderance of the evidence standard and finding that “[t]he mere possibility that the plaintiff and proposed class could meet [the amount in controversy requirement] is not enough to give this court jurisdiction”
• “In order to demonstrate a basis for federal jurisdiction, the party seeking removal must present facts rather than speculation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).