October 08, 2026
An airline industry trade group and a Colorado labor official told a federal judge they see virtually no chance of settling the group's lawsuit over whether a state paid sick leave law applies to airline workers, proposing trial dates for early 2027 and offering competing lengths for the proceeding.
October 01, 2026
A Colorado federal court has sent an airline industry group's challenge to the state's paid sick leave law to trial, finding that competing expert testimony about whether the law increases employee absences and disrupts airline services creates factual disputes that a judge cannot resolve before trial.
March 16, 2026
An airline trade group advanced only speculative arguments in its efforts to beat Colorado's bid for a pretrial win in the group's suit challenging Colorado's sick leave law, the state told a federal judge.
July 07, 2025
An airline lobby and the state of Colorado told a federal court last week that a settlement "appears unlikely" in the airline group's case claiming the state's sick leave law is preempted by federal law.
October 01, 2024
A Colorado federal judge refused to throw out a suit from an airline lobbying group alleging the state's sick leave law is unlawful, though he agreed to toss the group's Railway Labor Act claim because the act doesn't meaningfully disrupt current collective bargaining agreements.
February 27, 2024
The state of Colorado called on a federal court to immediately dismiss an airline lobbying group's challenge to a state sick leave law, arguing that recent precedent established that the law was not preempted by the Airline Deregulation Act.
February 13, 2024
The State of Colorado can't land arguments that its sick leave law should stay in place because it relied on "obsolete" precedent while overlooking other rulings axing similar laws, an airline trade group told a Colorado federal court.
January 23, 2024
The State of Colorado asked a federal court to grant it an early win in an airline trade group's lawsuit seeking to block the state's sick leave law, saying the federal laws the group had cited do not interfere with the state's ability to promulgate a new labor law.
September 21, 2023
A United Airlines lawsuit claiming that federal laws preempted a 2020 Colorado law mandating paid sick leave for workers seemingly came to an end when the airline voluntarily dropped it.
September 18, 2023
Airlines for America has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Colorado's 2020 law creating sick leave requirements for workers, arguing that the regulations are preempted by federal law.