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Article: Appellate court rules in favor of truckers in Clean Trucks Program suit
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- March 20, 2009
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LOS ANGELES -- An appellate panel ruled today that a federal
judge was wrong to deny a temporary injunction against some of the
Clean Trucks Program's big-rig concession requirements at the Los
Angeles and Long Beach ports.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling is seen as a major
victory for the American Trucking Associations, the trade
organization that filed the original lawsuit.
Last summer, a Los Angeles federal judge rejected the ATA's
request for a preliminary injunction that would halt part of the
harbor clean trucks plan, which the association argued could
jeopardize the ability of independent haulers to work at the ports.
The ATA's complaint targets requirements that all motor ...