December 18, 2020
Appellate courts handed down mixed rulings this year on whether gig-economy drivers are exempt from arbitration, and California courts issued decisions narrowing the scope of the federal government's preemption of certain regulations for airline and trucking workers. Here’s a look at some of the biggest rulings that impacted the transportation sector in 2020.
September 29, 2020
Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett's recent decisions limiting which types of workers can evade mandatory arbitration clauses or receive overtime pay raise questions on whether her elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court might tip the scales on hot-button issues involving transportation and gig-economy companies.
September 26, 2020
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a devout Catholic and a law professor who has developed a conservative record in her relatively brief time on the Seventh Circuit. As a fierce election-year battle looms over her confirmation, here are some telling opinions, dissents and decisions she has written.
August 26, 2020
Grubhub and Lyft drivers urged two federal appeals courts to find that they're exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act in their fight to be classified as employees, citing recent appellate rulings that found the law didn't cover Amazon.com delivery drivers.
August 04, 2020
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday rejected arguments that Grubhub Inc. delivery drivers are workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce specifically exempted from the Federal Arbitration Act, affirming lower-court decisions to send a pair of putative wage-and-hour class actions to arbitration.
February 12, 2020
GrubHub told the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday that wage-and-hour lawsuits brought by its food delivery drivers belong in arbitration, saying Congress wasn't seeking to protect "a local delivery person with a bag containing a sandwich and a bag of chips" when it created the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for transportation workers.
January 13, 2020
GrubHub Inc. drivers who are banking on the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for transportation workers to advance their wage-and-hour suits in court told the Seventh Circuit their work making food deliveries qualifies as interstate commerce, which exempts them from arbitration.
September 05, 2019
Legal advocates at Public Justice PC have weighed in on a bid by GrubHub Inc. delivery drivers to keep their proposed wage-and-hour class action in court, telling the Seventh Circuit that all workers engaged in interstate commerce are exempt from arbitration.