The following excerpt is from Renfro v. Swift Transp., Case No. 1:17-cv-1349-LJO-BAM (E.D. Cal. 2018):
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1331, federal district courts have jurisdiction over "all civil actions arising under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States." "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) (quoting Franchise Tax Bd.
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