What jurisdiction does the Guam District Court have over a civil action brought by the Guam Republican Party?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from H&K Invs., LP v. Erfe, No. 2:12-cv-00938 LKK KJN PS (E.D. Cal. 2012):
Turning to the question of jurisdiction, district courts have federal question jurisdiction over "all civil actions that arise under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States." 28 U.S.C. 1331. "A case 'arises under' federal law either where federal law creates the cause of action or 'where the vindication of a right under state law necessarily turn[s] on some construction of federal law.'" Republican Party of Guam v. Gutierrez, 277 F.3d 1086,
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