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Snyder v. Harris, 394 U.S. 332 (1969)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Snyder v. Harris, 394 U.S. 332 (1969)
Snyder v. Harris No. 109 Argued January 21, 1969 Decided March 25, 1969 * 394 U.S. 332
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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Separate and distinct claims presented by and for various claimants in federal diversity actions may not be added together to provide the requisite $10,000 jurisdictional amount in controversy. Fed.Rule Civ.Proc. 23, as amended in 1966, did not change the scope of the statutory grant of district court jurisdiction, as the longstanding judicial interpretation of that statute cannot be changed by an amendment to the Rules, and there is no compelling reason for overturning settled judicial construction of "matter in controversy" in the light of consistent congressional reenactment of that language against a background of judicial interpretation that the phrase does not encompass the aggregation of separate and distinct claims. Pp. 332-342.
No. 109, 39,0 F.2d 204, affirmed; No. 117, 389 F.2d 831, reversed.
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U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Snyder v. Harris, 394 U.S. 332 (1969) in 394 U.S. 332 Original Sources, accessed November 3, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2PVA9UDJYZV7DUH.
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U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Snyder v. Harris, 394 U.S. 332 (1969), in 394 U.S. 332, Original Sources. 3 Nov. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2PVA9UDJYZV7DUH.
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U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Snyder v. Harris, 394 U.S. 332 (1969). cited in 1969, 394 U.S. 332. Original Sources, retrieved 3 November 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2PVA9UDJYZV7DUH.
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