preemption

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Over the six days between the show’s preemption and its return, celebrities and influencers posted instructions on how to cancel subscriptions to Disney’s streaming services.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2025

During his Monday address at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City, Carr insisted that those words played no role in Kimmel’s suspension, instead blaming the show’s preemption on its “ratings.”

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2025

“EPA granted preemption waivers for California to tackle local problems like smog in the Los Angeles basin, where the pollution was both generated by and felt by Californians,” the fuel producers said in their appeal.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024

When I wrote about preemption in 2021, I counted eight states with pending legislation; only two of those bills ended up becoming law.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2024

Thereafter all settlement and preemption rights ceased and the further distribution of land in Kentucky was by means of treasury warrants.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various