Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Ass’n v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal 7th Circuit Court
Civil Court
Administrative Law
Citation
Case Number: 
No. 10-2340
Decision Date: 
August 25, 2011
Federal District: 
Petition for Review, Rule of Fed. Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Holding: 
Vacated and remanded
Record failed to support agency’s issuance of rule requiring use of electronic monitoring devices to record driver’s activities in commercial trucks. Remand was required since agency had failed to consider statutory requirement that any regulation that concerned monitoring devices in commercial vehicles not be used to harass vehicle operators. Ct. also rejected agency’s argument that plaintiffs-truck drivers and related association lacked standing to seek review of instant rule where holding in Abbott Laboratories, 367 US 136, permits pre-enforcement challenges of final agency rules involving purely legal claims.