United States Sixth Circuit

In a legal malpractice suit, dismissal of plaintiff's complaint for lack of federal diversity jurisdiction, for failure to meet the amount in controversy requirement, is reversed where it does not appear to a legal certainty that her claim is for less than $75,000.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/02/2005
• Published 05/02/2005

Judges

• Before:  MERRITT and ROGERS, Circuit Judges;  DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: D. Joe Griffith, Dagger, Johnston, Miller, Ogilvie & Hampson, Lancaster, Ohio, for Appellant. Lynne M. Longtin, Rendigs, Fry, Kiely & Dennis, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: D. Joe Griffith, Dagger, Johnston, Miller, Ogilvie & Hampson, Lancaster, Ohio, for Appellant.  Lynne M. Longtin, Carolyn A. Taggart, Rendigs, Fry, Kiely & Dennis, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellee.