Hoskins v. Bekins Van Lines

How courts have described this case

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• holding that second prong was satisfied where shipper signed contract that limited liability
• concluding plaintiffs continued to be citizens of Mississippi for purposes of diversity jurisdiction despite military assignment and current residence in Maryland
• concluding plaintiffs continued to be citizens of Mississippi for purposes of diversity jurisdiction despite military assignment and current residence in Maryland
• finding precedent abrogated where an intervening Supreme Court case \shift[ed] [the] focus\ of the applicable test
• addressing the “validity of the $70,000 limitation of liability” and finding all four-Hughes elements satisfied, including “the reasonable opportunity to choose among two levels of liability”
• “Under the well-pleaded complaint rule, ‘federal jurisdiction exists only when a federal question is presented on the face of plaintiff s properly pleaded complaint.’ ”

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