In her Western District Roundup, Sharon M. Porcellio, a partner at Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy, writes that federal courts addressed the unsettled area of preemption of common law claims for unpaid wages and did not remand, brt refused in another case to exercise jurisdiction over common law negligence claims which merely referred to past violations of federal environmental statutes.
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Federal-State Balance Explored in Wage and Environmental Cases
New York Law Journal
April 13, 2012
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