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KAHN v. HOTEL RAMADA OF NEVADA

No. 85-1739.

799 F.2d 199 (1986)

Robert D. KAHN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOTEL RAMADA OF NEVADA d/b/a Tropicana Hotel and Country Club, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack N. Price, Austin, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Franny A. Forsman, Las Vegas, Nev., for defendant-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, RUBIN and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A part-time jewelry broker's luggage containing jewelry and other property allegedly worth over $50,000 was taken from a baggage room at a Las Vegas hotel at which he was a guest. He appeals from a district court order dismissing his federal diversity claim for lack of jurisdictional amount on the ground that a Nevada statute limits hotel liability for stolen property to $750 in the absence of an express waiver of the limitation by the...

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