Geographic Expeditions, Inc. v. Estate of Lhotka

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• holding that remand is proper “if there is any doubt as to the right of removal in the first instance”
• holding that courts should remand cases “if there is any doubt as to the right of removal in the first instance”
• holding that the proponent of federal jurisdiction has the burden of 28 establishing that the amount in controversy is satisfied
• holding that under the legal certainty test “a federal court has subject matter jurisdiction unless upon the face of the complaint, it is obvious that the suit cannot involve the necessary amount”
• explaining that federal 17 courts construe removal statutes in favor of remanding a case to state court
• explaining that preponderance standard 23 applies in removal cases as opposed to cases originally filed in federal court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).