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U.S. Supreme Court,
Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Apr. 13, 2018

Justices should take LAX labor case

The Supreme Court should grant certiorari in this case to correct the 9th Circuit’s misapplication of the market participation doctrine and affirm that states and local governments may not substitute their judgment on labor policy for that of Congress.

Mark S. Ross

Special Counsel
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Email: mross@sheppardmullin.com

Mark is in the Labor and Employment Practice Group in the firm’s San Francisco Office.

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John D. Ellis

Associate
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Phone: (415) 774-2912

Email: jellis@sheppardmullin.com

UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA

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Justices should take LAX labor case
The exterior of the Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building, in Los Angeles, April 15, 2010. (New York Times News Service)

A petition for certiorari in Airline Service Providers Association v. Los Angeles World Airports (17-1183) asks the U.S. Supreme Court to once again correct the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' failure to apply the broad preemptive force of federal labor law to California's attempts to regulate labor-management relations in contravention of the uniform national scheme established by Congress.

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