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his isn’t just a cromulent decision—it’s a reminder that attorneys’ fees can’t be used to shoehorn a small state wage claim
into
federal court. TL;DR: A federal judge in Pennsylvania kicked a wage-and-hour case back to state court after finding that the employer couldn’t show more than $75,000 was at stake. The plaintiff’s actual damages were just $9,350, and the court concluded that attorneys’ fees of $65,650—required to cross the jurisdictional threshold—wouldn’t be “reasonable” under state law. Bonus: the opinion featu
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es not one, but two references
to The Simpsons. 📄 Read the full opinion here The Facts: Clocking In, Walking