St. Paul Reinsurance Company, Ltd. v. Larry Greenberg

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• recognizing that statutorily authorized attorney fees may be considered in determining the jurisdictional amount in controversy
• holding that consideration of a subsequently-filed state court complaint under such circumstances constitutes “error as a matter of law.”
• recognizing that “bare allegations of jurisdictional facts” are “insufficient to invest a federal court with jurisdiction”
• explaining that attorneys’ fees and punitive may be included to reach the amount in controversy requirement if, under state law, they are recoverable (citing authorities
• calculating the amount in controversy and including penalties, statutory damages, punitive damages, potential attorney’s fees, and treble damages
• using in part a demand letter to estimate the value of damages in controversy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).