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

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.

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.

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.