Roybal v. Los Alamos National Bank

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• “Federal common law, rather than state contract law, governs SFIP interpretation .... ‘Thus, a complaint alleging breach of a[] SFIP satisfies § 1331 by raising a substantial federal question on its face.’ ”
• substantial question of federal law not involved simply because the state court might have to interpret federal law or look to the scope of SFIP coverage to determine if insurer owed a legal duty under state law to procure the SFIP

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).