Eric J. Schneidewind, et al. v. Anr Pipeline Company and Anr Storage Company

Decided March 22, 1988. Harry Andrew Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 86-986 · 485 U.S. 293 (1988) · Cited 488 times

Holding

The MPSC regulation of respondents through Act 144 impinges on a field that the federal regulatory scheme has occupied to the exclusion of state law, and Act 144 therefore is pre-empted.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 8–0.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · 331 U.S. 218 (1947)
• Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. v. Arkansas Public Service Commission · 461 U.S. 375 (1983)
• Northern Natural Gas Co. v. State Corp. Commission · 372 U.S. 84 (1963)
• Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. De La Cuesta · 458 U.S. 141 (1982)
• California Coastal Commission v. Granite Rock Co. · 480 U.S. 572 (1987)
• Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · 463 U.S. 85 (1983)
• Hines v. Davidowitz · 312 U.S. 52 (1941)
• Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · 373 U.S. 132 (1963)
• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · 395 U.S. 367 (1969)
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · 471 U.S. 724 (1985)
• Hillsborough County v. Automated Medical Laboratories, Inc. · 471 U.S. 707 (1985)
• Maryland v. Louisiana · 451 U.S. 725 (1981)
• Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp. · 464 U.S. 238 (1984)
• Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Hall · 453 U.S. 571 (1981)
• Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin · 347 U.S. 672 (1954)
• Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Public Service Commission · 332 U.S. 507 (1947)
• American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · 387 U.S. 397 (1967)
• R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Durham County · 479 U.S. 130 (1986)
• Illinois Natural Gas Co. v. Central Illinois Public Service Co. · 314 U.S. 498 (1942)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Oneok, Inc. v. Learjet, Inc. · 575 U.S. 373 (2015)
• Northwest Central Pipeline Corp. v. State Corporation Comm'n of Kan. · 489 U.S. 493 (1989)
• Brecht v. Abrahamson · 507 U.S. 619 (1993)
• Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos., Inc. v. Dobson · 513 U.S. 265 (1995)
• English v. General Electric Co. · 496 U.S. 72 (1990)
• General Motors Corp. v. Tracy · 519 U.S. 278 (1997)
• Hubbard v. United States · 514 U.S. 695 (1995)
• Fulton v. Philadelphia · 593 U.S. 522 (2021)

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