A new legal battle is underway following the U.S. Department of Transportation’s final rule tightening eligibility standards for nondomiciled commercial driver’s licenses, setting the stage for continued litigation in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. One day after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published its final rule formalizing restrictions on nondomiciled CDLs, a coalition of labor unions and individual drivers filed a petition for review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The case, Jorge Lujan et al. v. FMCSA et al., No. 26-1032, challenges the rule’s legality and requests judicial review of the agency’s action. The petitioners include the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and truck drivers Jorge Rivera Lujan and Aleksei Semenovskii. They are represented by attorneys from the Public Citizen Litigation Group and in-house counsel for AFSCME. window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []}; googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot(‘/21776187881/FW-Responsive-Main_Content-Slot1’, [[300, 100], [320, 50], [728, 90], [468, 60]], ‘div-gpt-ad-1709668545404-0’).defineSizeMapping(gptSizeMaps.banner1).addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(); googletag.enableServices(); }); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1709668545404-0’); }); The filing marks the latest chapter in an ongoing legal dispute that began in late 2025, when the FMCSA issued an emergency interim final rule addressing non-domiciled CDL screening standards. That interim rule was paused by the D.C. Circuit in November while the court reviewed claims that the agency had bypassed standard notice-and-comment rulemaking procedures. The newly published final rule, dated February 11, incorporates many of the same restrictions contained in the interim measure. According to the FMCSA’s final…
