Florida Supreme Court justices puzzled Wednesday over whether Congress intended to protect a stolen-goods fencing operation at a cargo carrier.
In the case of Ivana Vidovic Mlinar v. United Parcel Service, the high court was presented with the proposition that UPS could steal valuables from customers, deny they are customers, hide stolen goods for years, then sell them through a third party. As a coup de grace, UPS would be shielded from a lawsuit by asserting federal preemption under the Carmack Amendment, a 108-year-old law limiting carrier liability in the interests of interstate commerce.
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