OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION, INC. v. LANDSTAR SYSTEM, INC.

No. 07-11866.

541 F.3d 1278 (2008)

OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION, INC., G.L. Brewer, on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, Gerald E. Eidam, Jr., on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, James E. Michael, on behalf of all others similarly situated, Robert Penman, on behalf of all others similarly situated, James E. Schmidt, on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. LANDSTAR SYSTEM, INC., Landstar Express America, Inc., Landstar Gemini, Inc., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Landstar Inway, Inc., Landstar Ligon, Inc., et. al., Defendants-Counter Claimants-Appellees-Cross Appellants, Qualcomm Incorporated, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 3, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Cohen, Paul D.Cullen, Joseph A. Black, The Cullen Law Firm, PLLC, Washington, DC, Michael R. Freed, Brennan, Manna & Diamond, P.L., Jacksonville, FL, for Appellants.

Lawrence Hamilton, II, George E. Schulz, Jr., Holland & Knight, LLP, Jacksonville, FL, Fredrick H.L. McClure, DLA Piper U.S., LLP, Steven L. Brannock, Holland & Knight, LLP, Tampa, FL, Robert L. Browning, Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, P.C., Indianapolis, IN, for Appellees.

Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and KRAVITCH and ALARCÓN, Circuit Judges.


ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, et al., ("Owner-Operators") represents truck owners and truck drivers who enter into lease agreements to provide equipment and services to haul freight in interstate commerce for Landstar System, Inc., et al., ("Landstar") a motor carrier. The Owner-Operators have appealed from the judgment entered against them rejecting their claims that Landstar violated 49 C.F.R. §...

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