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Supreme Court Of The United States, October Term 2007 Preview, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute, Rupal Doshi
Supreme Court Of The United States, October Term 2007 Preview, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute, Rupal Doshi
Supreme Court Overviews
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Supreme Court Of The United States, October Term 2006 Overview, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute, Rupal Doshi
Supreme Court Of The United States, October Term 2006 Overview, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute, Rupal Doshi
Supreme Court Overviews
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Why Preemption Proponents Are Wrong, Brian Wolfman
Why Preemption Proponents Are Wrong, Brian Wolfman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The basic idea of federal preemption is easily stated: It is a constitutionally mandated principle that demands that federal law trumps state law when the two conflict or in the rare instances when a federal law is so comprehensive that there’s no role left for state law to fill. But in practice, courts have often had difficulty applying the principle.
For plaintiff lawyers, preemption is an ever-present worry. When your client has been injured by a defective car, truck, medical device, boat, tobacco product, pesticide, or mislabeled drug, or has been victimized by a bank or other lending institution, the …