Wal-Mart’s internal investigation of injuries sustained by a patron of one of its Pennsylvania stores is not enough to prove the patron’s damages claim exceeded the $75,000 threshold required to get the case into federal court.
U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania sent the premises liability case of Stevenson v. Wal-Mart Stores back to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas because the only evidence to show plaintiff Dorothy N. Stevenson’s alleged damages met or exceeded the $75,000 requirement for federal jurisdiction was Wal-Mart’s own estimate of Stevenson’s damages and her refusal to stipulate that her damages were lower.
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