Legal Opinion
Ace Auto Body & Towing, Ltd. v. City of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 26, 1999No. Docket Nos. 97-9499, 97-9551PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
Looming over our Republican form of government, where each state in the exercise of sovereignty enacts its own laws, lies the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, from which clause has been derived a legal concept known — to judges and lawyers, if not to laypersons — as preemption. Preemption, the doctrine by which federal law supplants contrary state and local law, is- the subject of this appeal. Plaintiffs, who are members and affiliates of the regional and New York City tow truck industry, filed an action against the defendant City in the United States…
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