A district court in California denied remand finding that the allegations in the complaint were sufficient to assume an amount-in-controversy in excess of the jurisdictional minimum under CAFA.
Plaintiff filed this class action on behalf of herself and at least 2000 purported class members. In her complaint, plaintiff alleged that the amount-in-controversy of her individual claim was less than $30,000, in addition to an unspecified amount of attorneys’ fees.
The defendant removed the action to the federal court under CAFA alleging that the class contained more than 100 people, there was minimal diversity, and that the amount-in-controversy exceeded $5 million. In support, the defendant noted that plaintiff’s individual claim of less than $30,000, aggregated over 2000 class members, amounted to a claim of approximately $59,999,980.
