On Rehearing, 5th Circuit Majority Finds Amount In Controversy Has Been Satisfied

(March 11, 2019, 12:14 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Granting a professional liability insurer’s petition for rehearing, a majority of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 6 held that the amount in controversy has been satisfied to establish that diversity jurisdiction has been satisfied in two underlying legal malpractice lawsuits, vacating its Aug. 30 opinion and entering a substitute opinion (Imperium Insurance Co. v. Shelton & Associates P.A., et al., Nos. 16-60728, 16-60730, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 6814)....

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