LOUISIANA INDEPENDENT PHARMACIES ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff—Appellee, versus EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INCORPORATED, Defendant—Appellant., 41 F.4th 473

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HOLDINGS: [1]-Federal question jurisdiction, under 28 U.S.C.S. § 1331, was lacking because, as the pharmacy benefits manager had no possible ground for a coercive lawsuit, no federal question arose for purposes of jurisdiction in the organization's declaratory judgment case, and the Medicare preemption provision plainly failed to meet the high standard for subject matter jurisdiction under a complete preemption theory; [2]-Federal courts lacked diversity jurisdiction, under 28 U.S.C.S. § 1332, over the dispute because the organization had not adequately pled facts to support the amount in controversy requirement. The organization did not show that any single member's claim would satisfy the amount in controversy requirement for diversity jurisdiction.