United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit seeking an equitable accounting, the proper way to measure the amount in controversy, required for federal diversity jurisdiction, under 28 U.S.C. section 1332, does not include defendants' costs for performing the accounting.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/18/2003
• Published 11/18/2003

Judges

• KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, DENNIS, Circuit Judge, and LYNN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ralph Stephen Carrigan (argued) and Mark A. Carrigan, Law Office of Mark A. Carrigan, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles F. Webber (argued), Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, MN, for Defendants-Appellees.