⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

The Supreme Court considers whether a local delivery driver can fall within the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for transportation workers without crossing state lines or interacting with a vehicle that does. Angelo Brock delivered Flowers Foods products from a Colorado warehouse to Colorado stores and sued over alleged underpayment. The district court refused to compel arbitration, and the Tenth Circuit affirmed. Flowers Foods will ask for a bright-line rule requiring either a border crossing or contact with a border-crossing vehicle. Brock will answer that his deliveries completed an interstate journey. On May twenty-eighth, the Court unanimously affirmed the Tenth Circuit. Justice Gorsuch wrote that a delivery leg entirely within one state can qualify without either condition, while leaving other possible limits unresolved.

Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock (No. 24-935) — Supreme Court of the United States, argued March 25, 2026.