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Thepetition of the day is:

17-99

Issues:(1) Whether the substantial[ity] and federal-state balance requirements ofGrable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. v. Darue Engineering & Manufacturingare satisfied whenever a federal law standard is referenced to inform the standard of care in a state-law cause of action, so long as the parties dispute whether federal law embodies the asserted standard; and (2) whether a federal court applyingGrableto a case removed from state court must accept a colorable, purely state-law claim as sufficient to establish that the case does not necessarily raise a federal issue, even if the court believes the state court would ultimately reject the purely state-law basis for the claim on its merits.

Cases: Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority – East v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, LLC

Recommended Citation: Aurora Barnes, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 18, 2017, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/08/petition-of-the-day-1206/