Kinley Corporation v. Iowa Utilities Board, Utilities Division, Department of Commerce, Office of Consumer Advocate

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the HLPSA expressly pre- empts an Iowa state statute that established a state program to supervise interstate hazardous liquid pipelines
• holding that questions regarding severability of state statutes are controlled by state law.
• discussing Pipeline Safety Act, 49 U.S.C. § 60101 et seq ., in context of federal preemption of state legislation
• rejecting a non-safety rationale when evidence did “not support this position”
• “Congress has expressly stated its intent to preempt the states from regulating in the area of safety in connection with interstate hazardous liquid pipelines.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).