Rhode Island Fishermen's Alliance, Inc. v. Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

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• upholding exercise of Grable jurisdiction where it was “not logically possible for the plaintiffs to prevail on [their] cause of action without affirmatively answering the embedded question of . . . federal law”
• finding the \substantiality\ prong of Grable to be satisfied because \[t]here is a significant federal interest in making certain that states comply with federally sanctioned interstate compacts\ even though the claim involved one specific compact
• outlining the history of the Commission and its shift to compulsory FMPs
• examining the state-law claim with the “most promising” basis for federal jurisdiction
• describing the two independent and separate categories to establish federal question jurisdiction
• finding the \substantiality\ prong of Grable to be satisfied in a claim about the interpretation of federal law, notwithstanding that this Court did not address how many cases would be governed by a ruling on that issue

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