Vasquez-Cruz v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to consider Section 7 preemption argument because “[t]he associations have no valid claim that [state law] affects their rights under section 7, since section 7 only confers rights on employees, not on employers”
• “[A] State cannot leverage its money to affect the contractor’s protected activity beyond the contractor’s dealings with the State.”
• “A major limitation on the labor law preemption doctrines is the principle that state conduct will not be preempted if the state’s actions are proprietary, rather than regulatory.”
• “A major limitation on the labor law preemption doctrines is the principle that state conduct will not be preempted if the state’s actions are proprietary, rather than regulatory.”
• “it would be impossible to treat their motion as one for judgment on the pleadings, since the State has not filed an answer and the pleadings therefore are not closed”
• “We must therefore begin by identifying whether any specific provision of sections 7 or 8 of the NLRA actually or arguably prohibits or protects the conduct that is the subject of state regulation.”

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