complete preemption doctrine

complete-preemption doctrine. The rule that a federal statute’s preemptive force may be so extraordinary and all-encompassing that it converts an ordinary state-common-law complaint into one stating a federal claim for purposes of the well-pleaded-complaint rule. See well-pleaded complaint under COMPLAINT. [Cases: Federal Courts 241.]

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