Can Federal Contract Requirements Preempt State Law?

Law360, New York (March 2, 2017, 12:13 PM EST) -- The only thing predictable about the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions on federal preemption — a subject that strikes at the heart of federalism — is the odd way that the justices spell "pre-emption." While the court's implied preemption (field preemption and conflict preemption) case law is particularly difficult to reconcile, the court in recent years has tried to achieve some degree of uniformity in the way that it goes about interpreting federal statutes' express preemption provisions....

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