Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation v. Deana Wing Field Drain

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding the district court had federal question jurisdiction where the plaintiff’s complaint raised a federal constitutional claim the defendant could bring against it
• explaining that under certain circumstances “the proper jurisdictional question is whether the complaint alleges a claim arising under federal law that the declaratory judgment defendant could affirmatively bring against the declaratory judgment plaintiff’
• explaining that under certain circumstances \the proper jurisdictional question is whether the complaint alleges a claim arising under federal law that the declaratory judgment defendant could affirmatively bring against the declaratory judgment plaintiff\
• explaining that under certain circumstances \the proper jurisdictional question is whether the complaint alleges a claim arising under federal law that the declaratory judgment defendant could affirmatively bring against the declaratory judgment plaintiff\
• explaining that “[t]he well-pleaded complaint rule requires that federal question jurisdiction not exist unless a federal question appears on the face of a plaintiff’s properly pleaded complaint.”
• explaining that under certain circumstances “the proper jurisdictional question is whether the complaint alleges a claim arising under federal law that the declaratory judgment defendant could affirmatively bring against the declaratory judgment plaintiff’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).