In Re Curtis Bruce WILLIS, Petitioner’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “We find the thirty-day time limit of section 1446(b) begins running upon receipt of the initial complaint only when the complaint explicitly discloses the plaintiff is seeking damages in excess of the federal jurisdictional amount. This rule ‘promotes certainty and judicial efficiency by not requiring courts to inquire into what a particular defendant may or may not subjectively know.’ Further, this rule prevents a plaintiff from disguising the amount of damages until after the thirty-day time limit has run to avoid removal to federal court. We therefore grant the petition for mandamus and direct the district court to reassume jurisdiction of the case and reinstate the case on its docket.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 385 F. Supp. 2d 839 - LaPree v. Prudential Financial

2. “If the case stated by the initial pleading is not removable, a notice of removal may be filed within thirty days after receipt by the defendant, through service or otherwise, of a copy of an amended pleading, motion, order or other paper from which it may first be ascertained that the case is one which is or has become removable, except that a case may not be removed on the basis of jurisdiction conferred by section 1332 of this title more than 1 year after commencement of the action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nguyen v. Kautz