Tom Everett v. Verizon Wireless, Inc., Dobson Cellular Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “In gauging the amount in controversy, courts view the claims from the vantage point of the time of removal.”
• defendants “must do more than show a mere possibility that the jurisdictional amount is satisfied”
• “A common interest in a litigation recovery thus represents a necessary, but by itself insufficient, ground to qualify claims for aggregation.”
• when removal is based on diversity of the parties, the removing defendant has the burden to prove the diversity requirements are satisfied by a preponderance of the evidence
• abrogated on other grounds by Hertz Corp. v. Friend, 559 U.S. 77 (2010)
• relying on Eagle Star and Gilman

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).