Lasalle v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, when a state-court petition “specifies a dollar amount of damages, that amount controls if made in good faith.” (emphasis added)
• noting that the Texas courts of appeals have uniformly held that claims premised on alleged mechanical defects must be supported by expert testimony
• affirming dismissal of customer agent responsible for the rental car transaction as improperly joined because “[a]ny duty [that she] had to protect the [plaintiffs] from a defect in an Enterprise vehicle flowed from being the company’s agent”
• “If the plaintiff’s state court petition specifies a dollar amount of damages, that amount controls if made in good faith.”
• “If the plaintiff’s state court petition specifies a dollar amount of damages, that amount controls if made in good faith.”
• burden on defendant removing based on diversity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).