United States Seventh Circuit

Dismissal for lack of jurisdiction in a suit requesting a declaratory judgment that an insurance company need not defend or indemnify its insured is reversed where the court could not be legally certain that the amount in controversy was less than the jurisdictional minimum.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/09/2006
• Decided 03/22/2006
• Published 03/22/2006

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, EASTERBROOK, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Marc Chemers (argued), David S. Osborne, Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven A. Smith (argued), Anderson & Wanca, Rolling Meadows, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.