Central Iowa Power Cooperative v. Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that no federal issue is necessarily raised when interpretation of a federal issue is not necessary for plaintiff to succeed in proving its state law claims
• holding that no federal issue is necessarily raised when interpretation of a federal issue is not necessary for plaintiff to succeed in proving its state law claims
• reversing lower court’s denial of motion to remand because plaintiff’s “state law claims d[id] not necessarily depend on the resolution of a substantial question of federal law”
• “Critically, the party seeking removal has the burden to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction. . . .”
• the party seeking removal has the burden to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction
• “If the plaintiff can support his claim with even one theory that does not call for an interpretation of federal law, his claim does not ‘arise under’ federal law for purposes of § 1331.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).