Farner v. Brunswick Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting claim, for purposes of preemption of state recreational boat safety regulations by federal act, that a common law claim is not the equivalent of a law or regulation
• rejecting claim, for purposes of preemption of state recreational boat safety regulations by federal act, that a common law claim is not the equivalent of a law or regulation
• section 4306 interpreted as a “specific expression of congressional intent to preempt a common-law tort action”
• “The decision of the Coast Guard was a decision not to regulate and has the same legal consequence as if the Coast Guard had issued a safety standard declaring that the States are prohibited from adopting a regulation requiring propeller guards on recreational boats.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).