{"id":119049,"date":"2026-09-30T21:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119049"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:17:05","slug":"119049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119049","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit trying to hold UPS and FedEx liable for the Uvalde shooting<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gov.uscourts.txwd_.1172812709.49.0.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">gov.uscourts.txwd.1172812709.49.0<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Citing this law &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/103\/statute\/STATUTE-108\/STATUTE-108-Pg1569.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>In brief:<\/div>\n<div>The <strong>Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (FAAAA), 49 U.S.C. \u00a7 14501(c)(1)<\/strong> preempts state laws and common law causes of action that are &#8220;related to a price, route, or service&#8221; of a motor carrier, broker, or freight forwarder with respect to the transportation of property. <em><strong>Courts have repeatedly held that state tort claims can qualify as a &#8220;law &#8230; having the force and effect of law&#8221; and therefore be preempted<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit trying to hold UPS and FedEx liable for the Uvalde shooting Citing this law &#8211; &#8220;Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994&#8221;. In brief: The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (FAAAA), 49 U.S.C. \u00a7 14501(c)(1) preempts state laws and common law causes of action that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119049\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-courts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119051,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119049\/revisions\/119051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}