191343P.pdf   03/17/2021  Guardian Flight LLC  v.  Jon Godfread
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1343
                          and No:  19-1381
   U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Bismarck   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Gruender and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Airline Deregulation Act. In a declaratory judgment action 
   asking the district court to declare two provisions of North Dakota law 
   governing the billing and sales practices of air ambulance providers 
   invalid as preempted by federal law, the district court concluded that 
   N.D. Century Code Sec. 26-1-47-09(3) and 26-1-47-08 were preempted by the 
   Airline Deregulation Act but that the provision governing the sale of 
   subscription agreements was saved by the McCarran-Ferguson Act. This court 
   affirms the district court's holding that the Airline Deregulation Act 
   preempts the statutory sections but reverses the holding regarding the 
   McCarran-Ferguson Act and the subscription provision, holding that the Act 
   does not apply because the North Dakota provisions at issue were not 
   enacted "for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance;" 
   affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with instructions to 
   enter judgment in favor of plaintiff.