1055, 1073 (1997) (citing Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., 505 U.S. 504, 517, 112 S.Ct. 2608, 120 L.Ed.2d 407 (1992)). Additionally, “[i]n all preemption cases, ... we start with the assumption that the historic police powers of the States [are] not to be superseded by the Federal Act unless that was the clear and manifest purpose of Congress.” Id. (quoting Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr, 518 U.S. 470, 485, 116 S.Ct. 2240, 135 L.Ed.2d 700 (1996)). Based on these considerations and the express language of the FAA, we stated in United Parcel Service: Congress only clearly preempted the States’ power to levy taxes on “the sale of air transportation or on the gross receipts derived therefrom.” 49 U.S.C. § 1513(a) [recodified as § 40116]; see also Aloha Airlines, 464 U.S. at 15 [104 S.Ct. 291] (<HOLDING>). In the present case, [Taxpayer] seeks to
holding that general maritime law preempts state law holding that any member of the general public can initiate an action to raise issues involving the public trust in air water or other natural resources of the state holding that section 1513a preempts state taxation of gross receipts derived from air transportation or the carnage of persons in air commerce holding epas interpretation of an ambiguous statutory provision unreasonable where it was inconsistent with the clean air acts purpose holding that the flsa preempts certain state law claims