Eitel v. McCool

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a plaintiff’s claim for unliquidated damages, especially when frivolous, cannot be decisive to establish jurisdiction of the federal courts
• “[T]he filing of a pleading reducing the amount claimed could not oust the district court of jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).