Vartanian v. Terzian

How courts have described this case

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• finding statement of damages was “other paper” from which defendant could first ascertain removability
• letter from plaintiff to defendant claiming damages of $100,000 was an “other paper” within the meaning of section 1446(b)
• Defendants should not be expected “to seek removal based only on what is, at best, an educated guess that federal jurisdiction exists.”
• “[T]he Third Circuit[ has] move[d] away from an inquiry as to what the defendant knew or should have known, toward a focus on the actual language of the pleadings.”
• courts, including the Third Circuit, have “moved away from an inquiry as to what the defendant knew or should have known” and instead “shifted that focus toward an analysis of what the relevant document says”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).