What jurisdiction does the Guam District Court have over civil actions that arise under federal law?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Levy v. Ryan Seacrest Prods., No. 2:13-cv-0070 KJM KJN PS (E.D. Cal. 2013):

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, 1088-89 (9th Cir. 2002) (modification in original)

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