No. 23-475

Ying Ye, as Representative of the Estate of Shawn Lin, Deceased v. GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc.

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2023-11-06
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (1) Experienced Counsel
Tags: federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act freight-broker motor-carrier motor-vehicle negligent-hiring personal-injury preemption safety-exception
Key Terms:
Arbitration
Latest Conference: 2024-01-05
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether a personal injury claim against a freight broker based on the broker's negligent hiring of an unsafe motor carrier to transport property by motor vehicle falls within the safety exception, as the Ninth Circuit has held, or whether such a claim is insufficiently connected to motor vehicles to fall within the exception, as the Seventh Circuit held below.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a personal injury claim against a freight broker based on the broker's negligent hiring of an unsafe motor carrier to transport property by motor vehicle falls within the safety exception

Docket Entries

2024-01-08
Petition DENIED.
2023-12-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2024.
2023-12-19
2023-12-06
Brief of respondent GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc. in opposition filed.
2023-12-04
2023-11-02

Attorneys

GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc.
Kannon K. ShanmugamPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Respondent
Institute for Safer Trucking
Brian WolfmanGeorgetown Law Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, Amicus
Ying Ye
Adina H. RosenbaumPublic Citizen Litigation Group, Petitioner