1st Circuit Rejects Bid to Skirt FAA Exemption, Reiterating That 'Workers Who Do Transportation Work Are Transportation Workers'

In what it described as “the latest in a line of cases calling for interpretation of Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit further clarified that employees who perform transportation work are exempt from the FAA regardless of whether they have additional job duties beyond that.

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