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Supreme Court To Decide Lease To Own Trucking Arbitration Case
Supreme Court to decide lease-to-own trucking arbitration case
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Feb 28, 2018 at 09:32 AM CST
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/federal-regulation/supremecourthearsleasingarbitration
Yesterday the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of
New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira
, a suit between a large trucking carrier and a long-haul driver, Dominic Oliveira, over whether labor disputes brought by ‘independent contractors’ can be forced into arbitration. The Federal Arbitration Act contains an exemption for transportation employees’ “contracts of employment”: at issue is whether an independent contractor’s Operating Agreement in a lease-to-own arrangement qualifies as a “contract of employment” under the FAA. In essence, Prime wants to be able contain disputes with its lessee drivers to arbitration, a cheaper alternative to litigation, while Oliveira contends that the operating agreements of lessee-drivers should be exempt from arbitration.