Hoffman v. Azman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting the proposition that a state statute may be preempted based on “abstract and unenacted legislative desires” not reflected in a statute’s text
• stating, in the context of field preemption of state law, that the focus is on “what the State did, not why it did it”
• stating that the legislature “knows how to express itself”
• stating that the legislature “knows how to express itself”
• recounting the perils of courts attempting to identify and enforce unenacted legislative purposes
• Section 2021 “allow[s] the NRC to devolve certain of its regulatory powers to the States”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).