After the May 2026 Supreme Court ruling in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, one critical question remained unanswered: whether the safety exception extends to cargo theft and property loss claims. Three recent federal district court decisions have determined that it does not. These rulings provide much needed clarity on how to distinguish property
On May 28, in Flowers Foods Inc. v. Brock, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a worker transporting goods can qualify for the Federal Arbitration Act’s Section 1 exemption without crossing state lines or interacting with vehicles that do.
A nationwide blockade conducted by Mexican trucking and agricultural transport groups on April 6, 2016—due to concerns with fraud and theft in the supply chain—disrupted major freight corridors across at least 20 Mexican states, impacting highways connecting Mexico City, industrial centers, ports, and key U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Though the blockade ended in only two days