Justices Pass on Taking Up Second Flowers Foods Arbitration Case

The US Supreme Court declined to take up Flowers Foods Inc.'s challenge to a First Circuit arbitration exemption ruling Monday, after the justices sided with another group of the company’s workers on the same issue earlier this month.

Flowers Foods and two subsidiaries had urged the high court to hold the petition until it reached a decision in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St. LLC. The mirror-image cases highlighted a circuit split over whether the Federal Arbitration Act’s transportation worker exemption is available solely to workers whose employers are in the transportation industry. The Supreme Court rejected an industry ...