{"id":1225,"date":"2026-05-14T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:41:08","slug":"us-supreme-court-says-man-who-lost-leg-can-sue-logistics-firm-over-truck-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"US supreme court says man who lost leg can sue logistics firm over truck crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Montgomery, whose parked vehicle was hit by a speeding driver, says top US freight broker should be liable<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court on Thursday allowed a man to sue a major logistics company after he lost part of his leg in a semi tractor-trailer crash, a decision that could have ripple effects across the trucking industry.<\/p>\n<p>The US\u2019s highest court ruled unanimously in favor of Shawn Montgomery, whose parked vehicle was hit by a speeding truck driver on an Illinois highway in 2017.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/supreme-court-illinois-trucker-crash-decision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Montgomery, whose parked vehicle was hit by a speeding driver, says top US freight broker should be liable The supreme court on Thursday allowed a man to sue a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1225\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}