Rice v. Office of Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the federal issues were substantial because the outcome of the lawsuit turned on how they were resolved
• holding under analogous statute that “federal law governs the issues of mental capacity and undue influence.”
• holding under analogous statute that \federal law governs the issues of mental capacity and undue influence.\
• explaining that, for the court to exercise diversity jurisdiction, “the complaint must allege that the plaintiff and defendant are citizens of different states”
• noting that the federal issues were substantial because the outcome of the lawsuit turned on how they were resolved
• saying that it would be “somewhat anomalous for Congress to rely completely on state causes of action when . . . federal law governs most aspects of the insurance policy and preempts inconsistent state law, and when the federal government has important interests at stake”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).