Amazon Drivers Who Escaped Arbitration Must Wait on Justices

A lawsuit accusing Amazon.com Inc. of misclassifying its last-mile drivers as independent contractors will remain paused as the U.S. Supreme Court considers two cases that could require arbitration of those claims, a federal judge said Friday,

The drivers in August 2020 won a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which found that they could keep their claims in court because they fell under a Federal Arbitration Act exemption for workers engaged in interstate commerce. That decision was stayed pending Amazon’s appeal to the Supreme Court, which denied review in February.

That stay will remain in ...