Civil Procedure – Jurisdictional Amount – Tax Service Franchise 
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Published: November 18, 2010
Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Procedure, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz
The 4th Circuit reverses dismissal of Liberty Tax Service’s breach-of-contract suit against a former franchisee for failure to meet the $75,000 amount in controversy; the district court failed to account for the value of the injunction Liberty sought in addition to monetary damages.
In most cases, the sum claimed by the plaintiff controls the amount in ...
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