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71 Mercer L. Rev. 39 (2019-2020)
Commercial Transportation: A Two-Year Survey

handle is hein.journals/mercer71 and id is 49 raw text is: Commercial Transportation: A
Two-Year Survey
by Madeline E. McNeeley*
Yvonne S. Godfrey**
T. Peyton Bell***
and Stephen G. Lowry***
I. INTRODUCTION
Commercial transportation involves all of the significant forms of
passenger and freight transportation across the United States. This
Article surveys significant judicial and legislative developments in
Georgia commercial-transportation law during the period from June 1,
2017 through May 31, 2019.1
Three of the areas discussed here-commercial motor vehicles,
aviation, and rail-are subject to heavy federal regulation due to their
*Partner, Harris Lowry Manton LLP, Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. University of
Tennessee (B.A. & B.S., magna cum laude, 1999); University of Maryland, College Park
(M.S., 2001); University of Tennessee College of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2008).
Member, State Bars of Georgia and Tennessee.
*Partner, Harris Lowry Manton LLP, Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. Rhodes College
(B.A., cum laude, 2003); University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2011).
Member, State Bar of Georgia.
*Associate, Harris Lowry Manton LLP, Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. Rhodes
College (B.A., 2009); University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., 2015). Member, State Bar
of Georgia.
*Partner, Harris Lowry Manton LLP, Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (B.A., magna cum laude, 1995); Lewis and Clark College
Northwestern School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1998). Member, State Bar of Georgia.
1. This Article covers an expanded survey period because no survey on this topic
appeared in the seventieth volume of the Mercer Law Review. For an analysis of
commercial-transportation law from the previous survey period, see Stephen G. Lowry et
al., Commercial Transportation, Annual Survey of Georgia Law, 69 MERCER L. REV. 41
(2017).

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