Delores Lewis v. Verizon Communications, Inc.

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• holding that a party “need not concede liability” to remove a case to federal court under CAFA.
• holding that a declaration or affidavit may satisfy the burden of 13 proving the amount in controversy by a preponderance of the evidence
• holding that a showing “that the potential damages could 16 exceed the jurisdictional amount” is satisfactory
• holding that a defendant “need not concede liability” to establish the amount in controversy for the purposes of CAFA jurisdiction
• finding a defendant had satisfied its burden by supplying “an affidavit to show that the potential damages could exceed the jurisdictional amount” (emphasis added)
• finding an affidavit 16 showing that “potential damages could exceed the jurisdictional amount” sufficient to satisfy the 17 removing defendant’s burden

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).