In Re Fedex Ground Package System, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting the testimony that “contractors must use a scanner so that customers can track their packages” and “[t]he scanners are connected to FedEx’s computer system and transmit package tracking information to FedEx’s website for customers to view”
• OA requires drivers to handle packages using methods that are designed to avoid theft, loss, and damage
• “[T]he court is limited in determining whether FedEx retained the right to control. The court relies on the policies and procedures to the extent they show how FedEx implemented its authority as retained by the Operating Agreement.”
• “The court can’t make generalizations about the class ... from a review of the actual control FedEx exercised.... The court’s analysis will focus on FedEx’s right to control all drivers based on the Operating Agreement and generally applicable policies and procedures.”
• “FedEx drivers must record information about all package deliveries.”
• “[T]he court finds it appropriate to review the policies and procedures that FedEx managers rely on when interacting with drivers to determine right to control. The court isn’t required to turn a blind eye to Fed-Ex’s procedures implemented on a class-wide basis.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Donald E. Carlson v. FedEx Ground Package Systems, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2015-05-28· cited 52×
• Craig v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-10-03· cited 31×
• Anfinson v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-12-20· cited 30×
• Browning v. Ceva Freight, LLC
  E.D. New York· 2012-08-11· cited 26×
• Butto v. Collecto Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2012-02-23· cited 13×
• Craig v. Fedex Ground Package System, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-07-12· cited 12×
• Centrifugal Acquisition Corp. v. Moon
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2012-02-02· cited 6×
• Fedex Ground Package System, Inc. v. United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-11-17· cited 4×
• Craig v. Fedex Ground Package System, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-07-08· cited 4×
• Anfinson v. FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-12-20· cited 3×
• Smith v. Medical Benefit Administrators Group, Inc.
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2012-04-19· cited 1×