Peter N. Heydon and Henrietta Heydon v. Mediaone of Southeast Michigan, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• relying on Skelly Oil in finding no subject matter jurisdiction over 3 declaratory judgment action
• the Declaratory Judgment Act does not “create an independent basis for factual subject matter jurisdiction”
• “A plaintiff cannot circumvent the well-pleaded complaint rule by seeking a declaratory judgment…if the complaint itself would not otherwise state a federal question.”

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