Racine v. American International Adjustment Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that state law claims falling within ERISA’s scope were completely preempted and to be treated as ERISA claims for the purposes of the well-pleaded complaint rule
• express preemption “does not confer federal subject matter jurisdiction” (emphasis in original)
• express preemption “does not confer federal subject matter jurisdiction” (emphasis in original)
• “[B]ecause complete preemption, a basis for federal subject matter jurisdiction, acts to transform state causes of action into federal causes of action, it is not a basis for dismissal, absent a defect in the transformed federal causes of action themselves.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).