A unanimous Supreme Court decision has erased the legal shield brokers relied on for a decade. Here’s what’s already changed, and what’s still coming, for brokers, shippers, and carriers alike. On May 14, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that freight brokers can be sued under state law for negligently hiring an unsafe motor carrier — reversing a decade of lower-court precedent and stripping brokers of the federal preemption defense they’d relied on to get these cases di