June 30, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it won't review whether a federal law regarding motor carriers' prices, routes or services preempts a controversial California worker classification law, killing the chance of a ruling that the petitioners said could impact hundreds of thousands of trucking owner-operators.
June 08, 2022
From city hall to the U.S. Supreme Court, state and local legislation affecting wage and hour law has been making its way through all three branches of government. Here, Law360 rounds up recent developments you may have missed.
June 03, 2022
President Joe Biden's worker-friendly policies undoubtedly influenced amicus briefs the U.S. Justice Department filed in a pair of employment law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, striking a delicate balance between legal argument and policy enactment, experts told Law360.
May 24, 2022
The federal government told the U.S. Supreme Court that California's heightened standard for legally classifying workers as independent contractors doesn't run afoul of federal law, and commercial truckers seeking a carve-out haven't yet shown how complying with the state law would increase their costs or snarl operations.
January 03, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has already agreed to hear three wage and hour cases this term, and 2022 opens with several more petitions for certiorari jockeying for the justices' attention. From federal preemption of state laws to arbitration agreements, here are seven to watch.
January 03, 2022
A high court fight concerning what types of interstate transportation workers are exempt from arbitration and clashes over the scope of federal preemption in cases involving airline employees and trucking providers are among the court battles that transportation attorneys are watching in 2022.
November 15, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court invited the solicitor general on Monday to share her views in the California Trucking Association's bid to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision forcing motor carriers to classify drivers as employees instead of independent contractors.
October 13, 2021
California's attorney general told the U.S. Supreme Court that the state's worker-friendly classification test doesn't impact the trucking industry, asking the high court to deny the California Trucking Association and two drivers' bid to review whether a federal law preempts state worker classification laws.
September 10, 2021
A slew of trucking groups including the Western States and Minnesota trucking associations have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review of a California federal case and find that federal trucking industry deregulation preempts that state's A.B. 5 law, which makes it harder to classify workers as independent contractors, saying the current model is vital to the industry.
September 01, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court should weigh in on whether a federal law dealing with trucking industry regulation preempts a California worker classification law, a motor carrier membership association urged in a friend-of-the-court filing, saying the state law would disrupt the industry's owner-operator business model.