Plaintiffs' Legal Committee, 531 U.S. 341 (2001) - but rather a chance to keep the plaintiffs from reducing the Buckman decision to a meaningless formality.Rather, the chief opportunity we see for defendants is that the Supreme Court might finally address how the "presumption against preemption" applies - if at all - in a situation involving implied conflict preemption.To understand what's at issue in Kent first requires review of what was decided in Buckman itself. [read post]

Verret & Chief Justice Myron T. [read post]