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Pre-emption’s Premise

Fritz R. Kahn | Aug 24, 2009 4:00AM GMT
The Journal of Commerce Magazine - Commentary

The controversies stemming from the clean-trucks programs at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have focused renewed attention on the doctrine of pre-emption, the principle in which federal law supersedes local or state regulation. That attention, which has led to calls by some for new limitations on pre-emption


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