Philip J. Frank v. Delta Airlines Inc., Delta Airlines Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing preemption of state-law tort action by codified FFA regulations which specified preemption and the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991
• “Allowing Frank to avail himself to Texas’s negligence regime would impose duties on Delta [Airlines] that are independent from and duplicative of the duties [the Federal Aviation Administration] imposes on airline industry employers.”
• dismissing state common-law tort claims because federal regulations required defendants’ complained-of actions
• \It is to [the FAA] regulations that one must turn in order to analyze the scope of preemption.\
• “It is to [the FAA] regulations that one must turn in order to analyze the scope of preemption.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).