{
  "id": 19875724,
  "title": "Denial of funds to NY over non domiciled CDLs overturned: appellate court",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/denial-of-funds-to-ny-over-non-domiciled-cdls-overturned-appellate",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-13T22:27:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "FreightWaves",
    "slug": "freightwaves",
    "url": "https://www.freightwaves.com/news/denial-of-funds-to-ny-over-non-domiciled-cdls-overturned-appellate-court"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has overturned a decision by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to deny New York State approximately $73.5 million in federal transportation funds. The dispute centered around New York's policies on non-domiciled Commercial Driver's Licenses (CDLs) and whether the DOT had the right to deny funding based on the expiration dates of drivers' authorization to stay in the U.S. The appellate court unanimously ruled that the DOT's decision was \"arbitrary and capricious,\" rejecting the federal government's argument that it could deny funds due to the mismatch between CDL expiration dates and the legal stay duration of non-citizens. The court emphasized that federal regulations did not require a non-domiciled CDL to end prior to the expiration of a driver's authorized stay in the U.S., and that the DOT's actions were not supported by the plain text of the relevant regulations. With about 32,600 non-domiciled CDLs in New York, representing roughly 7% of the state's licenses, the decision could have significant implications for the state's transportation funding.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}