Judgment In Student Drivers’ Wage Class Action Vacated By Split 8th Circuit

Mealey's (October 14, 2019, 12:22 PM EDT) -- OMAHA, Neb. — A divided Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 10 vacated a district court’s judgment for student truck drivers on some of their collective and class action claims, finding an error when the deadline for the disclosure of expert reports was extended, and remanded for further proceedings, ruling that the error was not harmless (Philip Petrone, et al. v. Werner Enterprises, Inc., et al., Nos. 18-1574 and 18-1647, 8th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 30344)....