December 22, 2021
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling clarifying the limits of specific personal jurisdiction for automakers, appellate decisions hampering ride-share and ride-hail drivers' efforts to pursue class actions, and shielding California workplace regulations from federal preemption are among the year's biggest court decisions impacting the transportation industry. Here, Law360 looks back at a few notable transportation-related rulings of 2021.
November 12, 2021
A divided D.C. Circuit on Friday dumped Obama-era greenhouse gas emissions and fuel-economy standards for heavy-duty truck trailers, saying those components aren't self-propelling and therefore can't be regulated as motor vehicles.
September 30, 2020
Obama-era greenhouse gas and fuel-economy standards for heavy-duty trailers are now completely on hold after the D.C. Circuit granted a request to stop the compliance deadline for the emissions regulation from taking effect at the outset of 2021.
September 15, 2020
A panel of D.C. Circuit judges Tuesday questioned whether truck trailers should be exempt from federal government regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, noting that trailers are on roads even if they aren't "self-propelled."
May 13, 2020
The federal government's rule aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from truck trailers is on solid legal ground, groups of states and environmentalists told the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday.
April 22, 2020
Two federal agencies have asked the D.C. Circuit to uphold regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty truck trailers, arguing an industry association has failed to prove the rule mandates more than the law allows.
October 30, 2017
The D.C. Circuit on Friday granted a request by a truck-trailer manufacturers trade association to delay the implementation of a federal rule meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty truck trailers.
October 13, 2017
Seven states and several other groups on Thursday urged the D.C. Circuit to reject a truck trailer manufacturers' association's bid to delay implementation of a federal rule aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty truck trailers, saying that the trailer makers won't suffer irreparable harm.
May 08, 2017
The D.C. Circuit on Monday granted a bid by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to pause challenges to greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for new large and heavy-duty vehicles for 90 days.
April 24, 2017
A 90-day pause in challenges to greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for new large and heavy-duty vehicles proposed by the federal government would essentially force truck trailer manufacturers to comply with the very standards they're fighting, an industry group told the D.C. Circuit Friday.