Article: COMMITTEE TO HOLD HEARING ON WHETHER FDA REGULATION SHOULD BAR LIABILITY CLAIMS

Article: Arkansas Supreme Court rules state law bad faith claim preempted by ERISA
Lawyers USA;  March 10, 2008 ;     322 words ...ERISA preempts a state law claim for the bad faith denial of long...benefits. The plaintiff sued under state law for bad faith. He argued that ERISA...requirements that must be satisfied for a state law to be deemed a law 'which regulates...

Article: New state law in place for county restaurants
Post-Tribune (IN);  November 17, 2004 ;     320 words ......inspect at local eateries thanks to a state law now becoming a local law. Porter County...County Health Department to enforce a state law that requires each restaurant or food-servi...Hospitality Association of Indiana. The state law was passed in response to requests from...

Article: State law discriminates against people with disabilities, federal lawsuit says Communities have power to close group homes
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 20, 1998 ;     373 words ...A state law giving communities the power to close...welfare" of surrounding residents. Under state law, if the group home is found to pose such...people with disabilities, alleges that the state law violates both the federal Fair Housing...

Article: FDA REGULATION AND STATE LIABILITY CLAIMS:DAVID C. VLADECK
Congressional Testimony;  May 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ......drugs and medical devices should bar state liability claims. This is a subject I have thought...medical devices broadly displaces state liability law is wrong as a legal matter. I...is that the decision to wipe away state liability law was not made by Congress through...

Article: Change in state law on appointments urged
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 22, 2001 ;     172 words ...Change in state law on appointments urged Saturday, September...something that would require a change in state law. Ald. Rosa Cameron plans to introduce...lawmakers in Madison to make the change to state law. It is co-sponsored by Aldermen Willie...

Article: High court strikes down Ames smoking ban; Ruling says that state law supersedes local ordinance
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 8, 2003 ;     567 words ......banning smoking in restaurants, ruling that state law bans local laws that are stricter than...decided to challenge that ban, saying state law generally allows cities to make decisions...because it amounted to a conflict between state law and a local ordinance. While a lower...

Article: 9th Circuit: ADA preempts award of attorney fees under state law
Lawyers USA;  July 14, 2008 ;     302 words ......entitled to an award of attorney fees under state law, the 9th Circuit has ruled in reversing...restaurant was entitled to fees under state law, which authorizes recovery by "prevailing...Circuit agreed. "[T]o the extent that [state law] mandates the imposition of fees on a...

Article: City uses state law to deny store sign
La Crosse Tribune;  August 20, 2005 ;     330 words ...La Crosse officials dusted off a state law Friday to deny a sign that would read...voted Friday against the sign, citing a state law that prohibits signs from being in the...businesses and at Hooters, despite the state law being in place, Turtenwald said. "We...

Article: Library offering free access. (Strictly Business: Briefs).(Mississippi State Law Library, computerized legal research)(Brief Article)
Mississippi Business Journal;  August 26, 2002 ;     133 words ...JACKSON -- The State Law Library is now offering free public...third-largest legal research provider, said State Law librarian Charlie Pearce. Pearce said...and copy the research for free. The State Law Library is located on the second floor...

Article: Limits on group home locations overturned Judge says state law discriminates against disabled adults
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 3, 1998 ;     700+ words ...A federal judge has invalidated a state law that, according to advocates for the...District Judge Thomas J. Curran threw out a state law allowing municipalities to require 2...by those communities. Curran said the state law conflicts with anti-discrimination provisions...

Article: Federal law doesn't preempt state law wage claims, 9th Circuit rules
Lawyers USA;  July 16, 2007 ;     271 words ...Union employees' state law claims seeking compensation for travel...travel time, alleging violations of state law rather than breaches of their collective...agreement. The employer argued that the state law claims were preempted by the Labor...

Article: Federal judge upholds state law to slow trains in Orr; Going from 60 miles per hour to 30 mph isn't a burden for the Canadian National Railway, the ruling said.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 5, 2007 ;     352 words ...Byline: Rochelle Olson; Staff Writer A state law passed to make trains slow down from...National Railway challenged the 2005 state law on several grounds, including that it...miles per hour, should supersede the state law. Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson...

Article: Bremer fails to convince IGC to agree on state law: paper
Xinhua News Agency;  February 25, 2004 ;     219 words ...Bremer fails to convince IGC to agree on state law: paper BAGHDAD, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Paul...members, who were busily discussing the state law for the transitional period, insisted...divided seriously on many points of the state law. One party practiced new tactics by urging...

Article: Ex-Winfield coach to challenge state law
Charleston Gazette;  June 3, 2009 ;     475 words ......School basketball coach is challenging a state law that he says discriminated against him...certificate and Sutherland did not. Under state law the board of education must show hiring...must be hired over the non-teacher under state law," the suit states. Sutherland has been...