Swift wins appeal in multimillion-dollar driver ‘poaching’ case

A multimillion-dollar 2019 judgment that CRST won against Swift over the issue of its hire of hundreds of drivers has been overturned on appeal, with the appellate court citing a decision last year in a separate case in which CRST mostly prevailed. 

The consistent thread in the divergent decisions is the question of whether hiring another company’s drivers who are under a noncompete agreement constitutes “intentional interference.”

The suit that CRST filed against Swift (NYSE: KNX) resulted in an...

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Appeals court revives CRST’s driver-poaching lawsuit

A divided federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit by CRST Expedited Inc. alleging rival motor carrier TransAm Trucking Inc. poached drivers who had signed noncompete contracts with CRST.

In a 2-1 split, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa’s July 2018 order granting summary judgment to TransAm and remanded the case for further consideration.

Judge Bobby E. Shepherd, writing for the majority, wrote that the...

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