Legal Opinion
Timothy French v. Pan Am Express, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 23, 1989No. 88-1450PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In this case, the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island granted the motion of defendant Pan Am Express, Inc. (Pan Am) for judgment on the pleadings. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(c), 56. The sole issue presented on appeal is whether a state statute regulating the circumstances under which employers may require workers to submit to drug testing can fly in the face of the Federal Aviation Act (Act), 49 U.S.C. § 1301 et seq. (1982), as applied to airline pilots employed by interstate air carriers. We believe that, given the statutory and regulatory climate, the…
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