With the relevant federal agencies filing their brief with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals last week, the stage is set for oral arguments in the case of Lujan vs. the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that will rule on the agency’s recent restrictions on the granting of non-domiciled CDLs. In the interim, the FMCSA rule on non-domiciled CDLs is in place, with the plaintiffs in the case having been rejected in their request for a stay that would have blocked the regulation. At issue is the February rule that limited the ability of states to issue a CDL to persons who were “not domiciled in the United States, who are almost entirely aliens,” the government respondents, including FMCSA and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, said in its brief filed last week.