I am pleased to report that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the district court's summary judgment in favor of our client, a bus company, in a case involving the motor carrier exemption. The case is Walters v. American Coach Lines of Miami, Inc. (11th Cir., July 23, 2009).
I first reported on this case and discussed the basics of the motor carrier exemption in a September 2008 post on the Florida Employment Law Blog. My EBG colleague, Brian Molinari, recently summarized the Walters decision in a post on the Prima Facie Law Blog.
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