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Score a victory for TQL in a case involving broker liability.

The TQL-Pink Cheetah broker transparency case will hear oral arguments in September.

(A full article on the broker liablility proceedings can be found here.) Good morning. Editor at large John Kingston and Washington bureau chief John Gallagher will be following the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday in Montgomery vs. Caribe, the case that is expected to settle an almost existential question in freight brokerage: […]

The Supreme Court got its first legal arguments as it takes up the issue of broker liability.

The deadline for the first key brief is at the start of December.

A US District Judge rules an FMCSA email urging compliance isn’t the kind of “order” that motor carriers can enforce in court under federal law. 

And then there’s the other side of the argument. With a September 29 judicial conference now set at the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) for the justices to consider whether to take up the issue of broker liability, the pleadings on both sides of the debate are coming into focus. Both Transportation Quality Logistics and the Transportation […]

TIA files comments as Supreme Court faces pivotal broker liability cases.

Total Quality Logistics has reportedly offered a $2,000 resignation incentive, a move aimed at keeping only employees who are “all in.”

TQL is trying to get the Supreme Court to rule on the issue of broker liability after it lost at the Sixth Circuit.

Even as the issue of broker liability is awaiting word on whether SCOTUS will take up the issue, another case is moving through the courts.

A court defeat for TQL on the question of broker liability may set up a Supreme Court showdown.

Another broker liability case is now before a federal appeals court, increasing the chances the issue will go before the Supreme Court.

RXO is involved in a legal case that could become another precedent in the question over when brokers can be held liable after a theft or accident.

Pink Cheetah Express LLC, a small Kissimmee, Florida-based motor carrier, alleges that TQL has flouted a 2023 Department of Transportation order mandating compliance with federal broker transparency rules.

This week in Borderlands: US apparel importers scrambling after Mexico imposes tariffs; Source Logistics opens warehouse in Laredo; brokerage giant opens office in Fort Worth; and industrial manufacturer plans Fort Worth distribution hub.

A federal court has again ruled in favor of the 3PL industry on the issue of broker liability.

TQL isn’t satisfied with its victory in a federal appeals court; it wants the Supreme Court to take up the question of broker liability.

The brokerage industry, this time TQL, has won another court victory, shielding it from liability stemming from a carrier it hired.

This week in Borderlands: ITS Logistics is making big moves in the Lone Star State; Lineage Logistics opens a cold chain logistics center in Houston; a metal recycling firm acquires a 55-acre tract at a logistics park; and TQL opens a new brokerage office in Arizona.