Thomas v. Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
VIRGINIA THOMAS CIVIL ACTION
VERSUS
BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY
WAREHOUSE CORPORATION NO. 25-00581-BAJ-RLB
RULING AND ORDER
The Magistrate Judge issued a Report and Recommendation (Doc. 13, the
"Report") recommending that the Court remand the above-captioned action 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. There are no objections to the Report.
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 (Doc. 6;
Doc. 10), the Court APPROVES the JVIagistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation
and ADOPTS it as the Court's opinion in this matter.
Accordingly,
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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.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this ^cTaf of February, 2026
A>^JUDGE BRIAN A. J4?SON
UNITED STATES D08TRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
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