Opinion
Civil Action 23-00241-BAJ-RLB
09-08-2023
SABRINA CRYER v. RUSSELL L. MADDOX, ET AL.
RULING AND ORDER
BRIAN A. JACKSON UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
On August 16, 2023, the Magistrate Judge issued a Report and Recommendation (Doc. 16, the “Report”) recommending that the above-captioned action be remanded to the Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, based on Defendants' failure to establish that the amount in controversy exceeds the jurisdictional minimum for diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332. The deadline to object to the Report has passed with no objection from Defendants.
Having carefully considered Defendants' Notice of Removal (Doc. 1) and the Parties' memoranda setting forth their respective positions regarding whether Defendants have satisfied Section 1332's amount-in-controversy requirement (Docs. 7, 12), the Court APPROVES the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation and ADOPTS it as the Court's opinion in this matter.
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the above-captioned action be and is hereby immediately REMANDED to the Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of Court shall TERMINATE this matter.