Nonprofit Law Firm As Amicus Supports Employers In FAA Exemption High Court Appeal

(December 19, 2023, 10:52 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The carveout in Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) for workers engaged in interstate commerce extends only to those workers “who regularly carry goods and passengers across interstate or foreign borders,” the Washington Legal Foundation argues in its amicus curiae brief filed Dec. 18 in the U.S. Supreme Court, supporting the position of a baked goods company and its subsidiaries in a wage-and-hour putative collective and class case by two truck drivers....