Divasta v. Davis

Full title: JOANNA DIVASTA, Plaintiff, v. MICHAEL DAVIS, et al., Defendants

Court: United States District Court, D. Maine

Date published: Mar 3, 2000

Civil No. 98-0130-B (D. Me. Mar. 3, 2000)

Opinion

Civil No. 98-0130-B.

March 3, 2000

ORDER ¹

1 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 73(b), the parties have consented to allow the United States Magistrate Judge to conduct any and all proceedings in this matter.

EUGENE W. BEAULIEU, U.S. Magistrate Judge.

Defendant has filed an unopposed Motion to Dismiss this matter for the reason that the parties agree Plaintiff will recover no more than $17,800, far short of the jurisdictional minimum under 28 U.S.C. § 1332. The Motion was filed following a discussion between the Court and counsel during the Final Pretrial Conference held in this matter on February 8, 1999. At that time the parties indicated they agreed the matter should be remanded to the state court, rather than dismissed outright, and the Court will accordingly construe this Motion to seek remand rather than dismissal. As construed, the Motion is hereby GRANTED and the matter is REMANDED to the Maine District Court for Somerset County, from which it was removed on June 29, 1998.

SO ORDERED .