The following excerpt is from Bank of Manhattan, N.A. v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp., 778 F.3d 1133 (9th Cir. 2015):
I respectfully dissent. In my view, our prior opinion in Sahni v. American Diversified Partners, 83 F.3d 1054 (9th Cir.1996) dictates the outcome of this case. Because there is no principled distinction between preemption of a state statute and preemption of state common law, I would reverse the district court's decision.
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