Legal Opinion
Olympic Pipe Line Company, a Delaware Corporation v. City of Seattle, a Washington Municipal Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 8, 2006No. 04-35307PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOULD, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the City of Seattle (“Seattle” or “the City”) can enforce specific provisions of two contracts it has with the Olympic Pipe Line Company (“Olympic”) to provide safety oversight of a hazardous liquid pipeline within Seattle’s city boundaries, despite the apparent federal preemption of hazardous liquid pipeline safety regulation by the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002, 49 U.S.C. § 60101 et seq. (“PSA”).
After a section of Olympic’s hazardous liquid pipeline exploded in Bellingham, Washington, killing three people and causing extensive…
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