June 03, 2026
It's true that Jennifer Bennett is undefeated at the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's also an understatement. Bennett's five wins, including two recent ones, were all unanimous decisions. They showed that the plaintiffs bar can still persuade a conservative supermajority. And they turned the tide after a spree of decisions keeping workers and consumers out of court.
May 28, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday that an arbitration exemption can cover delivery drivers, who complete the last leg of an interstate journey but themselves don't cross state lines or touch a vehicle that does, doesn't entirely address distribution agreements and class action waivers, attorneys said.
May 28, 2026
An exemption to federal arbitration requirements for workers engaged in interstate commerce can extend to what are known as last-mile drivers who locally deliver goods that travel interstate, the U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday, resolving an issue that lingered after previous high court decisions.
April 13, 2026
Appeals courts are currently looking at a slew of wage and hour issues, including whether Fair Labor Standards Act collectives have defined borders, the survival of "headless" California's Private Attorneys General Act claims and whether delivery drivers fall under two federal exemptions. Here, Law360 explores these wage and hour cases.
March 31, 2026
Employers facing wage claims have been arguing that a federal arbitration exemption does not apply because workers did not have “contracts of employment,” an emerging issue that recently came up during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case exploring a related question. Here, Law360 takes a look at the issue.
March 31, 2026
In our inaugural Law360 Transportation Tracker, a New York district court walloped the Trump administration's effort to cancel Manhattan's congestion pricing, the federal government continued its assault on California's vehicle emissions regulations, and Boeing investors scored class certification in 737 Max-related securities fraud litigation.
March 25, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to push back Wednesday on an argument by counsel for delivery drivers that their approach to an interstate transportation worker exemption to federal arbitration requirements would not go beyond the drivers.
March 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will once again weigh in on an exemption to federal arbitration requirements for interstate transportation workers, paving the way for a ruling attorneys say could settle questions left over from previous wage and hour high court cases.
March 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to again weigh what makes workers engaged in interstate transportation and therefore exempt from federal arbitration requirements, with two attorneys returning to the high court after they previously argued a separate case involving the issue. Here, Law360 takes a look at the two.
March 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its March oral arguments session by reviewing disputes over the validity of state laws allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted in federal elections and whether "last-mile" delivery drivers qualify for the transportation worker exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act.