DARROE v. Staples, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Song–Beverly Act’s civil penalties should be 7 included in amount in controversy requirement for diversity jurisdiction
• finding that an employee’s request for time off to receive medical treatment, without explicitly requesting FMLA leave, qualified as FMLA-protected leave
• concluding that the plaintiff’s “implicit theory 15 of relatedness would swallow the rule, at least with respect to corporate defendants,” where 16 the plaintiff asserted copyright infringement claims in California based on the defendants’ 17 “overall corporate activities” in the forum state
• including a reasonable estimate of future 16 || attorneys’ fees in the amount in controversy at the time of removal when a || statute allowed for the recovery of attorneys’ fees
• applying New Jersey substantive law

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