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Federal question

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Definitions from Case Law

From 317 U.S. 173 - Sola Electric Co. v. Jefferson Electric Co. · 1942Most cited · 967 citing opinions

When a federal statute condemns an act as unlawful the extent and nature of the legal consequences of the condemnation, though left by the statute to judicial determination, are nevertheless federal questions, the answers to which are to be derived from the statute and the federal policy which it has adopted.

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

See Federal.

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