“Amount in controversy” in employment matters with diversity jurisdiction: The $75,000 “amount-in-controversy” excludes interest and costs, but includes not only damages and attorney fees (at least when they are not statutorily defined as part of the “costs”), but also “the back payment of health benefits and taxes” and the costs of any “accounting” that plaintiff […]
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