In his Texas Employment Law Update blog post titled “U.S. Supreme Court Holds Local Delivery Drivers Exempt from Federal Arbitration Act and Can Litigate in Court,” Russell Cawyer discusses the Court’s unanimous decision in Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock, No. 24-935. The ruling clarifies that a local delivery driver who operates entirely within one state can still fall under the Federal Arbitration Act’s transportation-worker exemption if their intrastate route is part of a continuous interstate journey—even without crossing state lines or interacting with out-of-state vehicles.