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· 4/22/1987

Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Citations

  • 817 F.2d 222
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 5530

How courts have described this case

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

  • rejecting the argument that the predecessor to 49 U.S.C. 47107(a), 49 U.S.C. § 2210(a), created a private right of action
  • “A claim under the Supremacy Clause that a federal law preempts a state regulation is distinct from a claim for enforcement of that federal law.”
  • “Section 1305(b)(1) does not expressly limit proprietary powers to the regulation of noise, although presumably Congress would have so limited the section if that is what it had in mind.”

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Judges: Feinberg, Timbers, Pratt

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