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 | The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not apply to "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in… |
| 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 residual clause in Section 1 of the FAA exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but … | |
| 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 | The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not "apply to contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, and any other class of workers engaged i… |
| 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 rideshare drivers are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any o… | |
| 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, consistent with the Commerce Clause and the deregulatory preferences of the Airline Deregulation Act, California may extend its wage-and-hour… | |
| 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 | Congress extended the Federal Arbitration Act's strong support for arbitration to the full reach of its powers to regulate foreign and interstate comm… |