Businesses often want uniform federal regulation when it can save them money, such as with vehicle emissions standards, or when it can preempt local laws or the threat of litigation in state court.

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You never want to preempt the leadership or the committee process.

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The bag makers argue statewide recycling laws should preempt local bag bans or taxes, since the local restrictions might undercut the economics of recycling facilities.

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The trouble, in a nutshell, is that everyone already knows about the pattern and either tries to preempt it by selling sooner or use it to buy into the decline.

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American companies have been exposed to a string of official rebuffs in recent weeks, in Europe and in China, all exposing an unwillingness or inability to anticipate and preempt conflicts with official bodies.

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For example, Section 230 and Article III standing work so well because they usually categorically preempt all causes of action asserted by the plaintiff, no matter how many or wide-ranging.

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The Bhutan government tried to preempt what it saw as a demographic war, and many citizens of Nepali descent fled or were illegally expelled.

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