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· 11/30/1995

McCorkindale v. American Home Assurance Co./A.I.C.

Citations

  • 909 F. Supp. 646
  • 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19133
  • 1995 WL 728178

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that in Iowa “the allegations of the actual damages on the face of the complaint provide the court with no basis for determining the amount of actual damages in question”
  • finding when original complaint states unspecified damages, removal jurisdiction has not been shown to have attached
  • because Iowa law forbade pleading any amount in controversy, except an amount in excess of the jurisdictional amounts in state court, “the allegations of actual damages on the face of the complaint provide the court with no basis for determining the amount of actual damages in question”
  • because Iowa law forbade pleading any amount in controversy, except an amount in excess of the jurisdictional amounts in state court, “the allegations of actual damages on the face of the complaint provide the court with no basis for determining the amount of actual damages in question”
  • because Iowa law forbade pleading any amount in controversy, except an amount in excess of the jurisdictional amount in state court, “the allegations of actual damages on the face of the complaint provide the court with no basis for determining the amount of actual damages in question”

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Judges: Bennett

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