Tongkook America, Inc. v. Shipton Sportswear Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the District Court should have dismissed the case when discovery made clear that there was never $75,000 in controversy.
• dismissing case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction where discovery showed that, at the time the action commenced, the plaintiff was owed less than the jurisdictional amount, despite plaintiff subjective good faith
• dismissing case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction where discovery showed that, at the time the action commenced, the plaintiff was owed less than the jurisdictional amount, despite plaintiff subjective good faith
• discussing Red Cab Co., 303 U.S. at 288-89, 58 S.Ct. 586
• “Where the damages sought are uncertain, the doubt should be resolved in favor of the plaintiffs pleadings.”
• “Where the damages sought are uncertain, the doubt should be resolved in favor of the plaintiff’s pleadings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).