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 06, 2020
Massachusetts drivers told the First Circuit that Lyft cannot use an arbitration agreement to thwart their bid to gain employee status through a court injunction, insisting that they're bona fide transportation workers engaged in interstate commerce who are exempt from arbitration.
October 07, 2020
Lyft has told the First Circuit that Massachusetts drivers suing to gain employee status must privately arbitrate their claims and that they do not qualify as transportation workers engaged in interstate commerce who would otherwise be exempt from arbitration.