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Last week, The Cullen Law Firm provided guidance on new loan and unemployment benefit programs implemented by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), the largest financial assistance package enacted in United States history. A principle component of the CARES Act was the creation of the Paycheck Protection Program and the […]
AMOUNTS OF LOANS USED TO COVER COSTS TO BE FORGIVEN On Saturday, March 28, 2020, President Trump signed into law the largest financial assistance package in United States history: The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. One of the largest components of the CARES Act is the Paycheck Protection Program, a new […]
The Relief for Workers Affected by Coronavirus Act, a portion of the CARES Act, signed into law on March 27, 2020, provides two primary types of relief to American workers hurt by COVID-19: (1) expanded unemployment assistance and coverage; and (2) cash payments. 1. Expanded Unemployment Assistance – Even to Owner-Operators. The CARES Act […]
In early December 2019, Celadon, an Indianapolis-based truckload carrier that grossed $1 billion as recently as 2015, filed for bankruptcy, making it perhaps the largest trucking company bankruptcy in U.S. history. Celadon employed 2,500 truck drivers and worked with 380 owner-operators. Certain of those owner-operators may have had escrow accounts on trucking equipment which they […]
Motor carriers and owner-operators are closely watching the State’s appeal of the preliminary injunction granted in the California Trucking Association’s (“CTA”) legal challenge to AB 5. There is reason to believe the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will affirm the district court’s holding that AB 5 is likely preempted by […]
Judge Benitez of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California recently granted the California Trucking Association’s (“CTA”) motion for preliminary injunction enjoining the enforcement of AB 5.[i] This week California and intervening-defendant the International Brotherhood Teamsters filed interlocutory appeals from that decision to the United States Court of Appeals for […]
Has a civil authority imposed a fine—or worse, threatened to (or actually) impounded your truck—because of an alleged violation? Has your vehicle or equipment been seized in a civil forfeiture action? Does the amount of the fine or penalty lodged against you seem to far outweigh any alleged offense? Does that fine or penalty […]
Last year, California’s governor signed AB 5 into law establishing a new test for determining whether a worker should be classified as an employee or an independent contractor. This classification determines the rights and benefits to which a worker is entitled. Commonly referred to as the ABC test, it went into effect on January 1, […]
The Cullen Law Firm PLLC has filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that dismissed a challenge to the tolls imposed by the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Petitioners the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) and the […]
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. (OOIDA) and the National Motorists Association (NMA), along with several individual plaintiffs, filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction today in support of their ongoing attack of what they allege are excessive and unconstitutional tolls imposed by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC). Both OOIDA and NMA assert that tolls on […]