Martin v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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• describing the N' otice of Removal as “defendant’s opportunity to persuade the court of its subject-matter jurisdiction’
• conducting a sua sponte analysis of subject matter jurisdiction following removal
• “The notice of removal is the defendant’s opportunity to persuade the district court of its subject-matter jurisdiction.”
• “One may not reasonably infer from [a p]laintiff’s ‘refusal’ to stipulate to a limitation on [his] claims that the claims are reasonably likely to exceed $75,000.”
• sua sponte remanding because the defendant’s “only genuine fact averments . . . relevant to the amount-in-controversy” were assertions that the plaintiff refused to stipulate that recovery would be less than $75,000

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