Flowers Foods, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Angelo Brock

  1. March 20, 2026

    Up Next At High Court: Late Ballots And 'Last-Mile' Drivers

    The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its March oral arguments session by reviewing disputes over the validity of state laws allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted in federal elections and whether "last-mile" delivery drivers qualify for the transportation worker exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act. 

  2. January 23, 2026

    DC, States Back Flowers Foods Driver In High Court Arb. Case

    Whether a worker qualifies for an arbitration exemption depends on what they do, not on the legal structure of their work, 14 states and the District of Columbia told the U.S. Supreme Court, backing a driver for Flowers Foods seeking to keep his wage suit out of arbitration.

  3. January 22, 2026

    Arbitrators Back Flowers Foods Driver In Exemption Battle

    The U.S. Supreme Court should maintain a ruling that a Flowers Foods distributor claiming unpaid overtime was exempt from arbitration because he engaged in interstate commerce, the National Academy of Arbitration told the high court Thursday, backing the worker.

  4. January 21, 2026

    AFL-CIO Backs Flowers Foods Driver In High Court Arb. Case

    A Flowers Foods distributor is exempt from federal arbitration because even though he delivered goods locally, his work was part of an uninterrupted stream of interstate commerce, AFL-CIO told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, backing the worker's bid to keep his misclassification suit in court.

  5. January 02, 2026

    Top Wage And Hour Cases To Watch In 2026

    A look at whether last-mile delivery drivers qualify for an exemption to federal arbitration requirements, disputes over courts using two steps for collective action certification and challenges to federal rules are among the top wage and hour cases to watch in the new year.

  6. December 11, 2025

    5 Attorneys On The Wage And Hour Issues They're Watching

    As the new year approaches, employment law attorneys are watching the expansion of pay transparency laws, efforts to ban "stay-or-pay" contracts and an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether last-mile drivers are exempt from federal arbitration requirements. Here, five attorneys share the wage and hour issues they’re watching.

  7. October 20, 2025

    Justices To Review Federal Arbitration Exemption Again

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a worker misclassification suit that could further refine an exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act.

  8. July 22, 2025

    Transportation Cases To Watch: Midyear Report 2025

    Litigation concerning whether local delivery drivers qualify as transportation workers exempt from arbitration and clashes over the scope of federal preemption in personal injury cases involving freight brokers and motor carriers are among the court battles that transportation attorneys are watching in the latter half of 2025.

  9. July 16, 2025

    Flowers Foods Pushes Justices To Take Up Arbitration Case

    Flowers Foods pressed the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to take up a case in which the Tenth Circuit decided to keep a distributor's overtime suit out of arbitration, urging the justices to cure a deep circuit split once and for all.