STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSWatch on - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived a trade group's challenge to a San Francisco law adopted amid the COVID-19 pandemic requiring airlines that use the city's airport to provide health insurance to employees.
For a law to be preempted by federal law, a state or city must be acting as a government regulator and not a private market participant in adopting it. A representative of Airlines for America and lawyers for the city did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In its lawsuit, Airlines for America argues that the city's ordinance is preempted by a federal law regulating employee benefit plans and separate laws that govern airlines.
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