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Greiner Civil Procedure Version 02

Moore v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., 291 U.S. 205 (1934)

Smith suggested that sometimes a federal district court had arising under jurisdiction even when the plaintiff did not assert a federally created cause of action.  But it provided little guidance as to when this exception applied.  The Supreme Court decided several cases in this area, and for a while, those cases made matters more, not less, confusing.

A summary of one case, Moore v. Chesapeake, appears below.  Is Moore like Smith?  Or is it a straightforward application of Mottley?