Heartland Express Inc.
5 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (2004–2024)
1 trusted published court opinion across 1 distinct case · 1 docket-only case without a recorded end date
What public court records show
Public federal court records list Heartland Express Inc. as an employer in 5 distinct federal employment cases between 2004 and 2024.
The most common claims on record were Discrimination.
These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.
Written decisions across 1 distinct case.
About this employer
Heartland Express Inc. appears in one trusted published federal employment opinion:
Chapman v. United States Department of Labor (2004) — Defendant Win. Chapman, a truck driver, was fired by Heartland Express of Iowa and claimed this was illegal discrimination under federal transportation safety laws. Chapman filed a complaint with the Department of Labor, arguing that his termination violated the Surface Transportation Assistance Act, which protects transportation wor… Read the ruling.
The published opinion involves a discrimination claim. Browse other discrimination rulings for comparable fact patterns and how courts have ruled. Discrimination.
Claim Types
What these numbers mean
A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.
A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.
Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.
Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.
Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.
Federal court cases
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.