By Stephen Migala (December 1, 2017, 12:50 PM EST) -- Those who follow drones or aviation have likely heard about the case of Singer v. City of Newton, which involved a city law restricting drones and related questions of federal preemption. This is not another rote recap of that case. Rather, this is a critical analysis embodied within a kind of dissent. The aim is to offer a contrary perspective and to provide the beginnings of a true debate for a case that had little to none of either. But this dissent is not solely based on opinion, or a different reasonable interpretation, it is based on what I personally perceive to be an objective and fundamental flaw in the opinion, which was based in large part on a miscodifed part of the U.S. Code that is not actually the law....