Ellenburg v. Spartan Motors Chassis, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the burden “is no greater than is required to establish federal jurisdiction as alleged in a complaint”
• holding that “a removing party’s notice of removal sufficiently establish[es] jurisdictional grounds for removal by making jurisdictional allegations in the same manner” as a plaintiff’s complaint
• concluding that “it was inappropriate” to impose “a higher pleading standard” on a notice of removal “than the one imposed on a plaintiff in drafting an initial complaint”
• holding that a district court’s remanding of an action because the greater than $75,000 value of damages allegation in the notice of removal was based “upon information and belief” constituted reversible error
• stating that the removing party is held to same pleading standard as plaintiff filing initial complaint
• observing that “a plaintiff’s complaint sufficiently establishes diversity jurisdiction if it alleges that the parties are of diverse citizenship and that the matter in controversy exceeds [$75,000]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).