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· 2/15/1866

Wolf v. Trochelman

Citations

  • 5 Rob. 611

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the federal issue must arise in the plaintiffs’ case in chief, not as part of the defense
  • holding that the presence of a federal cause of action is “evidence relevant to our calculus” but not dispositive
  • a case arises under federal law if “the plaintiff's right to relief necessarily depends on resolution of a substantial question of federal law”

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