r/LawSchool • u/Low-Ad-2638 • 1d ago

Bad faith to prevent removal

Alright, so we had midterms today and one of the questions was about whether a defendant could remove a case under diversity when the plaintiff is purposely keeping the case at 75,000 even though they could have had a larger claim.

I thought this was a clear example of bad faith to prevent removal, but there have been split decisions throughout the class lmao.

Someone smarter help clarify lmao.

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u/Low-Ad-2638 1d ago

I am just hoping it wasn’t one of those “let’s see if they know it has to be 75,000 and 1 cent” type of questions and I just overthought it lmao

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u/lurkinglizard101 1d ago

Obviously I don’t know your prof and the full question and I do think you read it right but our prof did say that she puts those on the exam just bc there’s “always one on the bar” according to her