Jon Riley Hays v. Bryan Cave LLP

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• finding that district court improperly denied remand and reversing merits judgment in favor of defendants
• “As the cases say, the plaintiff cannot abrogate the defendant’s right of removal by ‘artful pleading.’”
• “[I]f federal law creates the claim on which the plaintiff is suing, the fact that he has omitted from his complaint any reference to federal law will not defeat removal.”
• “[I]f federal law creates the claim on which the plaintiff is suing, the fact that he has omitted from his complaint any reference to federal law will not defeat removal.”
• “[T]here is nothing unusual about a court having to decide issues that arise under the law of other jurisdictions; otherwise there would be no field called ‘conflict of laws’ and no rule barring removal of a case from state to federal court on the basis of a federal defense.”

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