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Supreme Court· 4/18/1995

Freightliner Corp. v. Myrick

Citations

  • 514 U.S. 280
  • 115 S. Ct. 1483
  • 131 L. Ed. 2d 385
  • 1995 U.S. LEXIS 2841

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  • holding that suspension of one specific vehicle safety regulation eliminated express preemption on the topic that regulation had addressed
  • holding that the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act did not pre-empt a common law design defect claim related to a truck that did not have anti-lock brakes
  • holding that the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act did not expressly preempt state common-law design defect claims against manufacturers of trucks not equipped with antilock braking systems
  • indicating that \at best\ Cipollone supports only an inference, not a rule, \that an express pre-emption clause forecloses implied pre-emption\
  • acknowledging that this is especially true where Congress intended to centralize all authority over the regulated area in one decision maker: the federal government
  • recognizing that a federal statute may implicitly preempt state law when the scope of the statute indicates that Congress intended federal law to occupy the field exclusively or when the state law is in actual conflict with federal law

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Judges: Thomas, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, Scalia

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