exemption

On April 12, 2024, in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries St., LLC (“Bissonnette”), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously resolved a split in the U.S. Courts of Appeal concerning the scope of the exemption in Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce." Last Term, in Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon (“Saxon”), SCOTUS had held that “any class of workers directly …

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