Golden v. Dodge-Markham Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the preponderance of the evidence standard applied where a plaintiff’s ad damnum clause only made general demands for certain types of relief and did not specify a dollar amount
• concluding plaintiff’s pre-suit settlement demand letter was not an “honest assessment of damages”
• “Defendant has not persuaded this Court that Plaintiffs settlement demand was an honest assessment of damages.”
• “[F]or the purpose of establishing the amount in controversy, the sum claimed by the plaintiff controls if the claim is apparently made in good faith.”
• “Generally, defendants can use demand letters, as ‘other paper’ under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b), to determine whether a case is removable.”
• “Plaintiffs ad damnum clause does not specify any dollar amount, it merely makes a general demand for certain types of relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).