Llamas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ERIKA LLAMAS,

Case No. 25-cv-08012-RS Plaintiff, 11 v. ORDER VACATING HEARING AND REQUESTING FURTHER BRIEFING

EVERON, LLC,

13 Defendant.

15 In this putative class action removed from state court on the basis of alleged diversity jurisdiction, defendant opposes plaintiff’s pending motion to remand by arguing a reasonable estimate of the named plaintiff’s purported actual damages is $64,773.36, which, when combined with a reasonable estimate of the total attorney fees at stake as $198,655, easily exceeds the $75,000 amount in controversy threshold for removal jurisdiction based on diversity. Neither the complaint nor the record in the remand briefing establishes the number of putative class members. Assuming a class of as few as twenty members (the lower end of a class size suitable for certification), the attorney fees attributable to each class member would be $9,932.75. Adding that number to the named…