Crucially, this would preclude state laws that mandate labelling, like Vermont's.The organic lobby, naturally, cries foul.
has sponsored a bill to clarify that the OPA doesn't preclude state suits over oil spills.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) has been the leading voice pushing for a narrower deal, expressing concern that the proposed settlement would preclude state AGs from fully investigating and prosecuting banks found to have committed wrongdoing.
Though it will be presented to all member states in New York in five weeks, the drafting process in Vienna largely precludes states without missions located there from partaking.
Any day now, the Supreme Court may deliver the decisive blow that marriage equality advocates have long sought: a decision saying the 14th Amendment to the Constitution precludes states from passing laws prohibiting same-sex couples from getting married.
Wyeth had argued that federal oversight of drug labels precluded state courts from hearing drug injury cases.
The proposal would not preclude the states from pursuing the banks for wrongdoing in the repackaging and marketing of loans as mortgage-backed securities.
Although the appeal will most likely turn on the Supreme Court's interpretation of the 1976 medical devices amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the case is part of a broader debate in Washington over the extent to which the Bush administration and Congress may preclude the states from imposing consumer regulations that are more stringent than the federal government's.
As the court of appeals held in that case, constitutional principles of due process and fundamental fairness preclude the states from adopting "a postelection departure from previous practice" and applying that postelection rule retroactively to determine the outcome of an election.
Later in 1997, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide; however, the Court did not preclude individual states from legislating in favor of physician-assisted suicide (so the Oregon legislation remained in force).
