transportation-law
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1238 | Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-06-04 | Granted | Amici (19)Relisted (2) | common-law motor-carrier negligent-selection preemption safety-exception transportation-law | Does § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver? |
| 23-427 | Domino’s Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-procedure commerce-clause delivery-drivers federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery standing statutory-interpretation transportation-law workers | Whether local delivery drivers—i.e., workers who make in-state deliveries of goods in response to instate orders, and play no role in transporting tho… |
| 22-459 | Ohio v. CSX Transportation, Inc. | Ohio | 2022-11-15 | Denied | CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) | federal-railroad-safety-act grade-crossing grade-crossing-statute interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption railroad-preemption railroad-safety state-regulation transportation transportation-law | Ohio's "Blocked Crossing Statute," Ohio Rev. Code §5589.21, prohibits stopped trains from blocking public roads for longer than five minutes, with cer… |
| 22-5820 | S. Patrick Mendel v. Liane Randolph, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights congressional-preemption criminal-conduct due-process federal-courts federal-enforcement preemption pro-se-petition public-safety transportation transportation-law | Congress regulates transportation throughout the United States and preempts by law State interference, to insure a competitive marketplace; and import… |
| 20-1502 | Abdikarim Karrani v. JetBlue Airways Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response Waived | air-carrier-discrimination air-transportation cat's-paw cat's-paw-doctrine civil-rights discrimination federal-preemption preemption statutory-interpretation transportation-law | 1. Is 49 US.C. § 44092(b) inapplicable to 42 U.S.C. § 1981 cases? 2. Should the "cat's paw" analysis of Staub v. Proctor Hosp., 562 U.S. 411 (2011) b… |
| 20-1425 | C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. v. Allen Miller | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-rights common-law-negligence due-process federal-preemption motor-carrier safety-regulation statutory-interpretation transportation transportation-law | The question presented is whether a common-law negligence claim against a freight broker is preempted because it does not constitute an exercise of th… |
| 19-352 | Robin Brindle, et al. v. Delta Airlines, Inc., et al. | Rhode Island | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | airline-deregulation airline-deregulation-act civil-procedure federal-law federal-preemption labor-law local-wage-regulation preemption state-regulation state-wage-regulation transportation transportation-law wage-regulation | Whether the preemption provision of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, 49 U.S.C. § 41713(b)(1), exempts airlines from state and local wage regulati… |
| 18-866 | Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Tennessee Department of Revenue, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 4-r-act discrimination fuel-tax infrastructure-funding interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-taxation railroad railroad-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination transportation-law | Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), states may not impose taxes that discriminate against railroads by favoring their competitors, such as motor carriers. … |