United States Eleventh Circuit

Potential for aggregate punitive damages under Oklahoma or Georgia state law for a class action lawsuit is not sufficient to meet the $75,000 minimum jurisdictional requirement for diversity jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2001
• Published 03/07/2001

Judges

• ANDERSON, Chief Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and MARCUS and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick J. Rice,David E. Hudson, Hull, Towill, Norman & Barrett, Augusta, GA, Robert J. Pratte, Margaret K. Savage, Briggs and Morgan, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for Defendant-Appellant., Pamela S. James, John C. Bell, Jr., Bell & James, P.C., Thomas W. Tucker, John B. Long, Dye, Tucker, Everitt, Wheale & Long, Augusta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.