Legal Opinion
REI Transport, Inc. v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 20, 2008No. 07-2710PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. is a freight broker (or, in its estimation, a “travel agent for freight”). REI Transport, Inc., is an Illinois trucking company that provides drayage services — in this case, the local delivery of cargo from a railroad terminal to the cargo’s final destination. The retail electronics company Circuit City hired C.H. Robinson to coordinate the shipment of several hundred DVD players from a Circuit City warehouse in California to another warehouse in southern Illinois. In so doing, C.H. Robinson contracted with REI Transport to carry the DVD…
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