United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
The 512 plaintiffs of a joint, state-law tort action (the "Allen plaintiffs" or "plaintiffs") appeal the removal of their claims to federal court. They contend that the district court erred in finding federal subject-matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (diversity of citizenship), because it improperly "aggregated" their claim for punitive damages as a "whole" in reaching the $50,000.01 amount-in-controversy mark for each...
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