If common law governs a case, does that matter to the federal courts?
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The following excerpt is from Woodward Governor Co. v. Curtiss Wright Flight Systems, Inc., 164 F.3d 123 (2nd Cir. 1999):
It is beyond dispute that if federal common law governs a case, that case presents a federal question within the subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts, just as if the case were governed by a federal statute. See 28 U.S.C. 1331; Illinois v. City of Milwaukee, 406 U.S. 91, 100, 92 S.Ct. 1385, 31 L.Ed.2d 712 (1972).
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