May 02, 2024
Over the past month, the scope of a federal exemption to arbitration has evolved as appellate courts have refined an important access point for workers to pursue their claims in court. Here, Law360 looks at several cases that have recently made waves in federal arbitration.
April 10, 2024
Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act only applies to humans, not companies, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, affirming a Washington federal court decision shipping three Amazon workers' misclassification suit to arbitration.
April 01, 2024
A group of Amazon delivery drivers urged the Ninth Circuit to take no notice of a recent decision by the Sixth Circuit that transportation industry LLCs are not exempt from arbitration, saying the decision was wrong on the law and featured drivers who worked under vastly different contracts.
March 28, 2024
Amazon called the Ninth Circuit's attention to a Sixth Circuit ruling holding that federal arbitration law's exemption for transportation workers does not apply to companies that perform transportation work, saying the circuit should follow suit and send a worker's wage suit against Amazon into arbitration.
August 21, 2023
An earlier Ninth Circuit decision in a case against Domino's doesn't relate to a suit against Amazon, the e-commerce giant said, telling the appeals court that the plaintiffs in the Domino's case were humans, not companies like in the present matter.
August 17, 2023
Workers who created a company to work for Amazon urged the Ninth Circuit to consider its earlier decision in a separate case against Domino's before determining whether federal arbitration requirements apply to them, saying they are similar to workers in the Domino's case.
April 25, 2023
Workers who created a company to work for Amazon can't dodge federal arbitration requirements because a Federal Arbitration Act exemption doesn't apply to businesses, the e-commerce giant said, urging the Ninth Circuit to keep a Washington federal court's decision.
February 24, 2023
A delivery driver who created a company to work for Amazon told the Ninth Circuit that his work, not his contract with the e-commerce giant, determines he's exempt from arbitration, saying a Washington federal judge's decision compelling arbitration can't stand.