Timothy French v. Pan Am Express, Inc.

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• holding that the FAA governs issues of pilot suitability, including submission to drug test- ing
• concluding that federal aviation law defensively preempted pilot’s state claims seeking to enjoin airline from requiring plaintiff to submit to drug tests
• holding that the FAA governs issues of pilot suitability, including submission to drug test- ing
• holding that the FAA and FARs “afford[ ] no room for the imposition of state-law criteria vis-a-vis pilot suitability” for “the medical standards which an airline pilot must meet before he will be certified”
• noting that City of Burbank held that “aircraft noise was wholly subject to federal hegemony, thereby preempting state or local enactments in the field”
• noting that \[t]he regulations promulgated . . . under the [FAA] bulwark our finding that Congress intended to occupy the field of pilot regulation related to air safety\

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