Marcus Ray Bryant v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the purpose of examining the record is limited to determining whether the plaintiff could have alleged, in good faith, that the requisite amount was in controversy on the date that the suit was filed
• vacating district court’s grant of summary judgment in diversity case and directing that the complaint be dismissed because of the absence of $75,000 in controversy
• “If on the date of filing, the plaintiff could allege in good faith that over $75,000 was at stake, then the amount-in-controversy requirement is satisfied.”
• “the court has jurisdiction unless an award for the jurisdictional minimum would be legally impossible”
• amount in controversy is satisfied “unless an award for the jurisdictional minimum would be legally impossible.”
• “We assess the amount in controversy as of the date on which a case is filed in … federal court. If on the date of filing, the plaintiff could allege in good faith that over $75,000 was at stake, then the amount-in- controversy requirement is satisfied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).