United States Tenth Circuit

In determining the minimum amount in controversy for diversity jurisdiction for a class action, a court may not aggregate punitive damages and attribute in total to each member of a putative class.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2001
• Published 05/29/2001

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Chief Judge., Before SEYMOUR and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and KANE, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael P. Malakoff,Malakoff Doyle & Finberg, P.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Richard N. Feferman, Albuquerque, New Mexico, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jan T. Chilton, Severson & Werson, San Francisco, California (Jay D. Hertz, Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees.