August 29, 2023
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived an airline lobby's preemption challenge of a San Francisco ordinance expanding airport workers' health care benefits, saying the city acted as a regulator by invoking hefty civil penalties to coerce airlines to comply.
April 21, 2023
The city of San Francisco defended a local ordinance that sets minimum health insurance coverage standards for airport workers before the Ninth Circuit on Friday, arguing that a trade group's challenge "isn't about preemption, it's about, 'We don't like the benefits threshold now, so we're going to raise a preemption claim.'"
January 05, 2023
An airline trade group urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a lower court's decision backing San Francisco's enforcement of an ordinance that sets minimum health insurance coverage standards for airport workers, arguing the statute is preempted by federal law because the local government acts as a regulator.