Federal Judge Remands DePuy Pinnacle Case for Failure to Meet $75,000 Threshold

LOS ANGELES - A California federal judge has remanded a DePuy Pinnacle hip implant case to state court, saying that the removing defendants failed to support their allegation that the amount in controversy meets the court's $75,000 threshold. Yeoman, et al. v. DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., et al., No. 11-cv-10607-JFW (C.D. Calif.).

Judge John F. Walter of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California said in his Feb. 1 order that given the court's finding on the amount in controversy, the court would take no position on defendants' assertion that in-state defendants were fraudulently joined to defeat the …