Matthew Greene v. Harley-Davidson, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that it is “reasonable to assume plaintiff’s counsel would seek 20 fees equal to 25% of possible compensatory and punitive damages”
• holding 22 a defendant does not need to show that punitive damages are “more likely than not,” but 23 that they are merely “possible”
• explaining that a defendant may satisfy “the amount-in-controversy 28 requirement under CAFA if it is reasonably possible that it may be liable for the 1 proffered punitive damages amount”
• “‘Amount at stake’ does not mean likely or probable liability; 19 rather, it refers to possible liability.”
• defendant provided evidence of attorneys’ fees 3 sought by plaintiff’s counsel in prior similar cases
• “[T]he amount in controversy represents only the ‘amount at stake in the underlying litigation,’ not the likely liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).