Siding and Insulation Co. v. Acuity Mutual Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding class members could not aggregate their claims to satisfy the amount in controversy threshold in a declaratory judgment against an insurer
• noting that “[sjubject-matter [jurisdiction] delineations must be policed by the courts on their own initiative”
• collecting cases in which our court has been presented with and subsequently avoided the question
• acknowledging a circuit split on the issue and declining to wade into the “jurisdictional morass”
• relying on Travelers Prop. Cas. v. Good, 689 F.3d 714, 722 (7th Cir. 2012)
• “[A]s the Supreme Court has often reminded, federal courts ‘possess only that power authorized by Constitution and statute, which is not to be expanded by judicial decree.’” (quoting Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 511 U.S. 375, 377 (1994))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).