Legal Opinion
Donald E. Carlson v. FedEx Ground Package Systems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 28, 2015No. 13-14979PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JORDAN, Circuit Judge:
For customers who are regularly visited by the ubiquitous white trucks of FedEx Ground, with their familiar purple and green logos, the usual concern is whether packages are picked up on schedule and delivered on time. If asked, a good number of those customers would probably say that they believe (or reasonably assume) that the drivers of those white trucks are employed by FedEx. The law, however, sometimes has a funny way of making hard what would otherwise seem intuitively simple, and that is the case with the legal status of FedEx’s drivers. The drivers who work for…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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