March 25, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to push back Wednesday on an argument by counsel for delivery drivers that their approach to an interstate transportation worker exemption to federal arbitration requirements would not go beyond the drivers.
March 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will once again weigh in on an exemption to federal arbitration requirements for interstate transportation workers, paving the way for a ruling attorneys say could settle questions left over from previous wage and hour high court cases.
March 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to again weigh what makes workers engaged in interstate transportation and therefore exempt from federal arbitration requirements, with two attorneys returning to the high court after they previously argued a separate case involving the issue. Here, Law360 takes a look at the two.
March 20, 2026
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.
January 23, 2026
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.
January 22, 2026
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.
January 21, 2026
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.
January 02, 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.
December 11, 2025
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.
October 20, 2025
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.