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No. 25-1421October Term 2025Before Arguments

Docket 25-1421October Term 2025 (2025–2026)

Christina Casarez, Petitioner v. Irigoyen Farms, Inc., et al.

from the Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District.

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What it's about

from the Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District.

Question presented

1. Whether the judgment below should be vacated in light of Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, 608 U. S. ___ (2026), where the California courts held that the FAAAA’s safety exception does not apply unless the claim alleges the tractor-trailer itself was defective or otherwise unsafe, and that Miller v. C. H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. was wrongly decided, while Montgomery unanimously held that common-law duties are part of a State’s safety regulatory authority and that a claim is “with respect to motor vehicles” if it concerns the vehicles used in transportation. 2. Whether 49 U. S. C. § 14501(c)(1) may be invoked by nonenumerated defendants such as shippers and receivers to preempt state wrongful-death and negligence claims arising from a fatal truck crash, even though the statute expressly names only motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers, and freight forwarders. 3. Whether the appropriate disposition is at minimum a grant, vacate, and remand order, and whether summary reversal is warranted, where the state trial court and the published state appellate decision rest on reasoning that Montgomery has now squarely rejected.

Case path

Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District / Accepted by the Court

Area

Supreme Court case awaiting argument

Timing

Expected by late June 2026, if argued this term

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Sep 1, 2026
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