transportation-workers

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-935 Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock Tenth Circuit 2025-02-28 Granted Amici (22)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles…
24-596 Aircraft Service International, Inc., et al. v. Danny Lopez Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response Waived employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transportation-workers Whether workers who fuel airplanes, but who never directly or physically move interstate goods, are engaged in the interstate transportation of goods …
23-1296 Randstad Inhouse Services, LLC, et al. v. Adan Ortiz, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Amici (1) commerce-clause contract-exemption employment-law exemption federal-arbitration-act foreign-commerce interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Are employees who handle goods that travel in interstate commerce—but who do not transport those goods across borders and whose work does not directly…
23-479 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers Does the FAA's residual clause exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but primarily performs…
23-460 C.K. Sales Co., LLC, et al. v. Margarito V. Canales, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Relisted (2) and distribute baked goods within defined intrast sell civil-procedure contract-employment contract-exemption employment-contracts employment-law exemption-clause federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-worker transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, and any other class of workers engaged in …
23-424 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Jennifer Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split delivery-drivers employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-deliveries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in f…
23A265 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-09-26 Presumed Complete arbitration-exemption circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce' applies to rideshare driver…
21-396 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Dev Anand Oman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied airline-deregulation-act commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce multi-state-work-shifts transportation-workers wage-and-hour-laws Whether California may extend its wage-and-hour laws to flight attendants who spend the vast majority of their workweek outside of California
21-309 Southwest Airlines Co. v. Latrice Saxon Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) circuit-city-stores-v-adams circuit-split contract-exemption eastus-v-iss-facility-services federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce ramp-agent-supervisor statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are …
20-1077 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka First Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce, 9 U.S.C. 1, prevents the Act's appli…
20-622 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernadean Rittmann, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-exemption arbitration-regimes contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery ninth-circuit seamen-railroad-employees transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce prevents the Act's application to loc…