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Contributed Content Thursday, July 9, 2026

What the Plaintiff Attorney Who Won at the Supreme Court Looks for in Broker Negligent Selection Cases

(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) When I interviewed Michael Leizerman, the plaintiff attorney who won at the United States Supreme Court in the broker negligent selection case now reshaping freight litigation, I expected pushback from the audience. More […]

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Rob Carpenter Wednesday, July 8, 2026

SCOTUS killed the broker defense; is truck leasing next?

The SCOTUS decision stripped brokers of the federal preemption defense used for years to escape negligent carrier selection claims. Almost nobody is talking about the commercial leasing and rental companies that made the decision to hand a 33-ton vehicle to the carrier in the first place. Their legal shield was different and the Supreme Court published the map to it.

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