December 22, 2025
The contracts used by two food distributors who created their own entities to work for a food service business fall under the Federal Arbitration Act carveout, the Second Circuit ruled Monday, nixing a Connecticut federal court's decision that sent their misclassification case to arbitration.
September 16, 2025
Two Connecticut delivery drivers asked the Second Circuit on Tuesday to reverse an order sending their employment misclassification lawsuit to arbitration, arguing the Federal Arbitration Act doesn't apply to workers engaged in interstate commerce and cuts through contracts that purportedly cast them as independent contractors.