Sentences with phrase «pass preemption»

In response, pet store lobbyists are pressuring state legislatures to pass preemption laws blocking cities» and counties» right to adopt retail pet sale bans.

Instead of passing preemption laws, states should ban the sale of commercially - bred animals statewide.

Not exact matches

It wasn't a bad Marty pass, it was weather reporting preemption.

ALEC is also the force behind the increased use of «preemption» laws designed to strip local governments of their power to ban fracking, pass minimum wage hikes, and enact earned sick day laws.

In 2014, when Utah - based fighting dog advocates, Best Friends Animal Society, fiercely lobbied Missouri legislators to pass a state preemption bill barring municipalities from enacting pit bull ordinances, the group used false constitutional arguments.

In the world of plastic pollution, preemption is when statewide legislation is used to take away a local city's right to pass a bag ban, foam ban or other local ordinance to prevent plastic litter.

If passed, this preemption bill will take away the right of local lawmakers to pass legislation to combat plastic pollution in their own backyards.

In a more recent case, Globetrotter Software, Inc. v. Elan Computer Group, Inc., the court elaborated on the decision in Zenith by holding that an allegedly «bad faith» patent assertion must pass the «objective baselessness» standard to survive federal preemption of state - law counterclaims for tortious interference with prospective economic advantage and unfair competition.

-LSB-...](or perhaps not), Vermont is also the state where a state law was recently passed that specifically targets bad - faith NPE patent assertions (a bill that will likely face its own preemption issues).