The following excerpt is from Young v. Coloma-Agaran, 340 F.3d 1053 (9th Cir. 2003):
Federal law may preempt state law in three ways: (1) federal law may explicitly preempt state law in a given area; 12017(2) federal law may implicitly preempt state law by dominating regulation in a given area; or (3) state law may actually conflict with federal law. Barber v. State of Hawaii, 42 F.3d 1185, 1189 (9th Cir.1994). In the instant case, the plaintiffs argue that the ban actually conflicts with, and therefore is preempted by, federal law.
Actual conflict, or "conflict preemption," occurs "where it is impossible ... to
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