Key legal question
Is the appeal admissible as a civil-law appeal and within the statutory value threshold?
Extracted holding
Yes, to the extent the appellants invoke federal civil law; the case concerns a civil-law dispute and the value in dispute is sufficient.
Extracted reasoning
The characterization depends on the legal nature of the claim as framed by the complaint. The appeal is available where federal private law is at issue, regardless of the public-law elements in the background.