Sept. 18, 2007); Pease v. Med-tronic, Inc., 6 F.Supp.2d 1354, 1358 (S.D.Fla.1998). This case stands on substantially different procedural footing than did the cases in Barwick, Long, and Lakey, and in most other instances in which the courts have remanded for a ruling on a motion to amend. In those cases, the motion to amend proposed an amendment that would create federal jurisdiction, but if the state court denied the motion then the case would not become removable. Barwick, 2012 WL 1656736 at *2 (“Although Plaintiffs’ proposed Fourth Amended Complaint may have contained federal causes of action ... [they] remain nothing more than proposed causes of action until the state court judge allows Plaintiffs to file their newest complaint.” (emphasis removed)); Long, 2012 WL 2370218 at *2-3 (<HOLDING>); La-key, 2007 WL 2029334 at *2 (holding that a
holding that motion to amend complaint to add punitive dajnages did not start the clock because amount in controversy was not met unless the motion was granted holding that district court did not abuse its discretion by denying plaintiffs motion to amend complaint to add punitive damages where motion was filed seven weeks before end of discovery but ten months after district court entered scheduling order and where plaintiff provided no reason why those damages could not have been alleged earlier and no good cause for late filing of motion to amend holding that district court had not abused its discretion in denying plaintiffs motion to amend complaint holding that a plaintiff should be allowed to amend the complaint to add a claim holding that a motion filed as a rule 59e was not a motion to alter or amend the judgment and did not toll the time to file an appeal because the motion for costs was wholly collateral to thejudgment on the merits