November 02, 2021
U.S. airlines' lead lobbying group has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the Ninth Circuit's rogue interpretation of a federal preemption standard improperly cleared the way for Washington state to enforce its paid sick leave law against airlines, upending flight crew staffing and overall operations.
August 05, 2021
An airline lobbying group urged the Ninth Circuit to halt its order allowing Washington state's sick leave law to go into effect, saying it plans to seek high court review in its challenge of the law.
July 29, 2021
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday declined to reconsider a ruling allowing Washington state to enforce its sick leave law against airlines, rejecting an air industry lobbying group's last-ditch effort to get the court to find that federal law trumped the state statute.
July 06, 2021
The full Ninth Circuit should review a panel's holding that Washington state can apply a paid sick leave law to airline employees because federal law doesn't preempt it, an airline lobbying group argued, saying the panel used the wrong test for determining preemption.
May 24, 2021
The Ninth Circuit gave Washington state a green light to apply its state sick leave law to airline employees, backing a trial court's decision to toss a challenge from an airline lobbying group that claimed the state statute was trumped by federal law.
March 05, 2021
Aspects of a recent Ninth Circuit decision "shred" an airline lobbying group's arguments that federal law preempts a Washington state sick pay law that extends to pilots and flight attendants, a flight attendants union has asserted in response to the group's appeal.
November 17, 2020
A Ninth Circuit judge appeared skeptical Tuesday of an airline lobbying group's arguments that the state of Washington's paid sick leave law can't apply to airline employees, saying repeatedly she's not sure that the group can "get around" a 2014 Ninth Circuit ruling limiting preemption arguments.
May 19, 2020
Democratic attorneys general from 18 states and the District of Columbia have urged the Ninth Circuit to uphold a federal judge's ruling that the state of Washington's paid sick leave law applies to airline employees, saying the law is more important than ever during the coronavirus crisis.