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Rogers v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

230 F.3d 868 (2000)

Facts

Shirley K. Rogers (plaintiff) suffered injuries after she tripped and fell on a wooden pallet in a Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart) (defendant) store in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1997 Rogers filed a lawsuit in state court alleging that Wal-Mart’s employees had acted negligently by leaving the pallet in the store’s shopping area. Rogers sought damages of $950,000. Wal-Mart removed the case to federal court on diversity-jurisdiction grounds, as Wal-Mart and Rogers were citizens of different states and the lawsuit sought damages over the amount-in-controversy requirement of $75,000. In her answers to interrogatories, Rogers estimated that her damages were around $450,000. In 1998 the parties agreed to dismiss the case. In 1999 Rogers filed a second lawsuit against Wal-Mart in state court, this time seeking damages not exceeding $75,000. Wal-Mart removed the case to federal court, citing Rogers’s answer to the interrogatory from the first case in which she estimated her damages were $450,000. Rogers filed a motion to remand the case to state court. Along with her motion, Rogers filed an affidavit stating that she would not seek damages beyond $75,000 and attached a stipulation agreeing that her damages did not exceed $75,000. The federal district court denied Rogers’s motion to remand the case. Rogers appealed.

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