198014P.pdf   09/17/2019  Massage Envy Franchising  v.  Mark Pirozzi
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-8014
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Shepherd and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. The district court 
   erred when it remanded the case to state court because the amount in 
   controversy did not exceed $5 million; defendant had plausibly alleged 
   that more than that amount was in controversy and the punitive damages 
   claimed in plaintiff's petition were sufficient to to raise the amount in 
   controversy above the threshold; removal notice was not untimely because 
   neither the initial nor the second amended petition disclosed an aggregate 
   amount in controversy or permitted defendant to unambiguously ascertain 
   that more than $5 million was in controversy; when defendant investigated 
   and filed a notice of removal based on the results of its own 
   amount-in-controversy investigation, the notice was not untimely.