Attorney General of California v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.

How later courts describe this case

• holding that 49 U.S.C. § 1305 — a broader preemption statute with very different language — preempted state regulation of Federal Express, including its trucking services
• FLSA does not broadly preempt state wage laws that are more protective than the FLSA
• “California’s more protective overtime provisions are compatible with, rather than conflict with, the [FLSA].”
• “the general rule on preemption in admiralty is that states may supplement federal admiralty law as applied to matters of local concern, so long as state law does not actually conflict with federal law... .”