US Supreme Court weighs bid to narrow worker arbitration exemption
Airfind news item
By Daniel Wiessner
Published on March 25, 2026.
The US Supreme Court is considering a case involving a "last mile" driver for Wonder Bread, Angelo Brock, who was employed by Flowers Foods to deliver its products from local warehouses to supermarkets in Colorado. The court's decision is crucial for companies that rely on fleets of drivers in complex supply chains. The 10th Circuit ruling exempts Brock from having to arbitrate work-related legal claims, following claims that Flowers misclassified drivers as independent contractors rather than employees and deprived them of the minimum wage and overtime pay. However, the three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown, were skeptical about this. Justice Neil Gorsuch predicted that the court would take up related issues in future litigation.
Read Original Article