Justices Skip Review of Delivery Partners’ Arbitration Status

The US Supreme Court declined to take up a case seeking clarity on whether baked goods delivery drivers who formed individual corporate entities fall under a federal law exempting transportation workers from mandatory arbitration requirements.

The justices on Monday rejected a petition from Baltimore-based Schmidt Baking Co. and Schmidt Baking Distribution LLC to review a US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s order allowing drivers Nathaniel Silva and Phil Rothkugel to invoke the Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption to keep their wage claims in court.

Schmidt Baking insisted that the law, which bars the enforcement of mandatory arbitration agreements in ...