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
Sinclair Broadcast Group is ending its preemption of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 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
The low success rate of preemption bills could reflect the nature of the state legislative process.
From Slate • Feb. 22, 2024
Beside the right to 400 acres, there was also a preemption right to 1,000 acres more adjoining to be secured by a land-office warrant.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore
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U.S. Government - Middle School and High School
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