Franchise Tax Board v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust

Franchise Tax Board v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust
Court	U.S Supreme Court
Citation	463 U.S. 1 (1983)
Date decided	1983

Rule

There must be a well-pleaded complaint.

Congress has given the lower federal courts jurisdiction to hear, originally or by removal from a state court, only those cases in which a well-pleaded complaint establishes either that federal law creates the cause of action or that the plaintiff’s right to relief necessarily depends on resolution of a substantial question of federal law.