Northeastern Rural Electric Membership Corp. v. Wabash Valley Power Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• finding district court that denied remand lacked jurisdiction, and remanding with instructions to remand case to state court
• “Federal defenses to a well pleaded complaint, such as preemption or preclusion, do not provide a basis for removal.”
• federal jurisdiction may exist where a \decisive question of federal law” is \embedded in [the] state law cause of action”
• “The federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction, and we have an obligation at each stage of the proceedings to ensure that we have subject matter jurisdiction over the dispute.”
• Courts must “resolve genuine doubts about removal in favor of state court jurisdiction.”
• discussing the areas where courts have found complete preemption

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).