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BISHOP v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

Civil No. 95-04794.

925 F.Supp. 294 (1996)

Peter R. BISHOP, Plaintiff, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

April 29, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Gsovski, Herzfeld & Rubin, New York City, Lawrence Lavigne, Hanlon Lavigne Topchik, Edison, NJ, for defendant.

Peter Masnik, Kalikman & Masnik, Haddonfield, NJ, Robert G. Eisler, Mager Liebenberg & White, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiff.

OPINION

IRENAS, District Judge:

Plaintiff Peter Bishop moves to remand his complaint to the state court from which it was removed by defendant General Motors. Because we hold that Bishop's claim does not meet the amount in controversy required to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction, and because we decline to treat attorneys' fees or highly speculative punitive damages as aggregable for purposes of meeting...

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