December 7, 2017
ABC Action News, Katie Lagrone and Matthew Apthorp, December 6, 2017- Years of giving smokers the free hand to puff away on local playgrounds is facing some fire. New legislation recently filed in both the House and Senate aims to end an age old state law that keeps cities and counties from …
October 23, 2017
WLRN News, Staff, October 20, 2017- A Senate Republican wants to allow cities and counties to be able to regulate smoking in public parks. State law currently gives authority to the state to regulate smoking — a concept known as preemption of local authority. But the bill (SB 562), filed …
August 28, 2017
WPTV- Katie Lagrone and Matthew Apthorp, August 25, 2017- Just when you thought Florida’s tobacco fight was old news, we’ve discovered a-little-known clause in smoking laws here causing both sides to light up. It’s called preemption, a fancy political term that boils to this: cities and counties across the state …
May 22, 2017
WLRN News, May 19, 2017- More than a decade after the Florida Supreme Court opened the floodgates for lawsuits against tobacco companies, an Atlanta-based appeals court this week rejected arguments that could have helped shield cigarette makers in legal battles about smoking-related illnesses and deaths. The full 11th U.S. Circuit …
May 12, 2017
Jennifer L. PomeranzJD, MPH, and Mark PertschukJD State and local governments traditionally protect the health and safety of their populations more strenuously than does the federal government. Preemption, when a higher level of government restricts or withdraws the authority of a lower level of government to act on a …