David Singer v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

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• holding that the amount in controversy is determined by what is sought in the complaint
• holding that a district court considering whether it has subject matter 7 jurisdiction may “consider facts in the removal petition” and other 8 “summary-judgment-type evidence”
• holding that the district court reasonably exercised its discretion to accept “a formal judicial 2 admission made in open court by the plaintiff’s attorney, that the amount in controversy exceeds 3 $50,000”
• holding that California Insurance Code section 11580.2(f) “does not speak to the question of whether 5 insurance company could be acting in bad faith by insisting on arbitration when there 6 || was no reason not to reach agreement.”
• noting that the court may 20 “consider facts in the removal petition” when assessing “the amount in controversy”
• finding that “the court may consider facts in the removal petition” in determining the amount in controversy for removal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).