Theodore W. Kheel v. The Port of New York Authority

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• rejecting as “too indirect and speculative” a plaintiff’s argument that failure to institute mass transit improvements would impose future costs of taxicab rides for nine years that would meet the amount-in-controversy requirement
• “[T]he amount in controversy is calculated from the plaintiff's standpoint; the value of the suit’s intended benefit or the value of the right being protected or the injury being averted constitutes the amount in controversy when damages are not requested.”

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