Cindy Whitman v. Raley's Inc., Floyd L. Krentz v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company

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• holding that a remand order cannot be reviewed on appeal or otherwise when based on a lack of complete preemption
• noting that only a court possessing jurisdiction may rule on the application of a preemp tion defense
• noting that a determination that Congress intended preemptive power to be strong enough to trigger federal jurisdiction is reserved for “exceptional circumstances”
• “If [plaintiffs claim is completely preempted], then the federal court has jurisdiction and, of course may proceed to rule on the substantive defense of preemption.”
• when a federal court remands to state court for lack of federal jurisdiction, \no rulings of the federal court have any preclusive effect on the substantive matters before the state court\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).