Oneok, Inc. v. Learjet, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Congress may “pre-empt . . . a state law through . . . express language in a statute”
• noting that in the similarly structured world of natural gas regulation, a \Platonic ideal\ of strict separation between federal and state realms cannot exist
• explaining that preemption depends on “the target at which the state law aims in determining whether that law is pre- empted”
• explaining that, as a consequence of the Supremacy Clause, Congress may “pre[]empt, i.e., invalidate, a state law through federal legislation”
• explaining that Supreme Court precedents \emphasize the importance of considering the target at which the state law aims in determining whether that law is pre-empted\
• explaining that Supreme Court precedents “emphasize the importance of considering the target at which the state law aims in determining whether that law is pre- empted” (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).