Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock

The Court holds that a worker who transports goods on an intrastate leg of an interstate journey can qualify for the Federal Arbitration Act's Section 1 exemption — which excludes from the Act contracts of employment of transportation workers engaged in interstate commerce — without ever crossing state lines or interacting with a vehicle that does. CASE: Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock AUTHOR: Gorsuch, J. DECIDED: 2026-05-28 OPINION: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-935_k53m.pdf AI DISCLOSURE: The voices in this podcast are AI-generated. The narration is produced by a machine-learning voice synthesis model. Tone, inflection, pacing, and emphasis are artifacts of the model and should not be attributed to any individual. The text being read is the majority opinion as published by the Supreme Court of the United States with light adaptations to improve readability.