Carpenter v. Wichita Falls Independent School District

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• holding that plaintiff “may not avoid removal by artfully casting his federal suit as one arising exclusively under state law”
• noting that a defendant may not remove on the basis of an anticipated or even inevitable federal defense
• observing that the United States Supreme Court has only sanctioned the artful pleading rule with regard to federal labor relations and the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
• “If there was any federal character at all to the plaintiffs’ state law claims in Moitie, it must be the federal law of preclusion.”
• a federal question is present when “there appears on the face of the complaint some substantial, disputed question of federal law”
• “[A] suit arises under federal law if there appears on the face of the complaint some substantial, disputed question of federal law.”

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