BRIEF IN OPPOSITION
INTRODUCTION
This petition should be denied. The Ninth Circuit below, in an interlocutory order, judgment and opinion filed July 11, 2008 (to which the September 17, 2008 Opinion, reprinted by petitioner at Pet. App. 1a-36a, simply “more fully sets forth the rationale,” id. at 10a), applied settled law to hold that at 10a), applied settled law to hold that respondents may maintain a valid cause of action for injunctive relief to prevent injury from a state law which is contrary to, and hence preempted under the Supremacy Clause by, a federal statute.
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