On May 28, 2026, in Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its fourth ruling in recent years interpreting the scope of the transportation worker exemption found in Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Court held that a driver who does not cross state lines or interact with vehicles that cross state lines still qualifies as a worker in interstate commerce. The decision builds on the Court’s continued expansion of the reach of the transportation worker exemption, and it may carry consequences for employers that rely on arbitration agreements to resolve disputes with workers who move goods, even entirely within a single state.
The plaintiff, Angelo Brock, is an independent distributor who picked up Flowers Foods, Inc.’s products from a Colorado warehouse and delivered them to local retailers without crossing a state line or handling a vehicle that did. When Flowers Foods sought to enforce the… Read the complete article here...
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