· 1/18/2002
Shannon Leonard v. Enterprise Rent A Car
Citations
- 279 F.3d 967
- 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 765
- 2002 WL 69170
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the value of the injunctive relief in question was too speculative to include in the amount in controversy
- holding that the value of the injunctive relief in question was too speculative to include in the amount in controversy
- holding that “unsupported assumptions” are “inadequate” to prove that the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000
- recognizing that dismissal is proper “where the pleadings make it clear to a legal certainty that the claim is really for less than the jurisdictional amount”
- holding that a Rule 12(b)(6) motion filed after answering the complaint was a “nullity . . . by filing an answer, the defendants had eschewed the option of asserting by motion that the complaint failed to state a claim for relief”
- noting that by first filing an answer to the complaint, the defendants’ Rule 12(b)(6) “motions were a nullity”
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Judges: Birch, Tjoflat, Vining
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