Subscribe to RSS feedMassachusetts refuses to back down in oil spill wrangle
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Rajesh Joshi, New York
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Jun 21, 2010 12:04 PM
MASSACHUSETTS has refused to admit defeat in a five-year old legal battle with the shipping industry over a state-level oil spill law.
The US state said it would appeal a decision by a federal court two months ago, which established the primacy of federal law over state-level regulations and declared a 2004 Massachusetts oil spill law unconstitutional.
The case has implications for...
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