{"id":1719,"date":"2024-07-09T22:05:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-in-pa-addresses-transportation-worker-definition-in-fedex-litigation\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T22:05:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:05:29","slug":"judge-in-pa-addresses-transportation-worker-definition-in-fedex-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-in-pa-addresses-transportation-worker-definition-in-fedex-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge in Pa. Addresses &#8216;Transportation Worker&#8217; Definition in FedEx Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge in Pennsylvania granted FedEx\u2019s motion to compel arbitration in a dispute with an independent service provider in Florida, concluding the\u00a0plaintiff\u00a0didn\u2019t qualify as\u00a0a \u201ctransportation worker\u201d under the exemption under\u00a0Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/11dr3rzowg6uhUmLhnIq5oEUTCH5p_zoJ\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 5 opinion<\/a>, U.S. District Judge\u00a0Nora Barry Fischer of the Western District of Pennsylvania granted FedEx Ground\u2019s motion to compel arbitration, after the plaintiff, Estanislao Enterprises Inc. (EEI), claimed FedEx engaged in abusive and illegal business practices toward itself and other \u201cindependent contractors\u201d operating under independent service provider (ISP) agreements.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Pennsylvania granted FedEx\u2019s motion to compel arbitration in a dispute with an independent service provider in Florida, concluding the\u00a0plaintiff\u00a0didn\u2019t qualify as\u00a0a \u201ctransportation worker\u201d under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2422,2424,2425,423,1130,2423,260],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-addresses","tag-definition","tag-fedex","tag-judge","tag-litigation","tag-transportation","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}