Karen Kovacs v. Stanley Chesley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a court cannot consider defenses such as “qualified immunity, res judicata, or the application of a statute of limitations”
• finding jurisdiction in the absence of a legal certainty that the plaintiff’s claim did not meet the jurisdictional amount
• noting that events occurring after filing do not oust jurisdiction
• differentiating between claims that involve liquidated damages and those that do not
• “The test for whether the jurisdictional amount has been met considers whether the plaintiff can succeed on the merits only in a superficial way.”
• “In short, to deny diversity jurisdiction it is generally not enough to show that the defendant will prevail on the merits. Such arguments are more appropriately made in support of a motion for summary judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).