High Court to Take Up Arbitration Stays in Wage-and-Hour Cases

Delivery drivers who say their wage case should have been paused, not thrown out, when a judge sent their allegations to arbitration convinced the US Supreme Court on Friday to take a look at the dispute.

There’s a “square and indisputable conflict” over whether the Federal Arbitration Act gives courts discretion to dismiss cases when all claims are subject to arbitration despite statutory text mandating a stay until the private dispute resolution proceedings end, the workers told the high court.

The circuit split has been “openly acknowledged for decades in courts nationwide” and “is now fully entrenched,” according to the ...