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2025 term · Roberts Court · 9-0

Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock

608 U.S. 380

The record

Term
2025
Decided
Issue area
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Vote split
9-0
Winning party
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Decision direction
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Chief Justice
Roberts Court
Disposition
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Docket
24-935
U.S. Reports
608 U.S. 380
S. Ct. citation
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LEXIS citation
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Opinion by
Neil Gorsuch

Holding

The Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption from compelled arbitration for workers “engaged in . . . interstate commerce,” 9 U. S. C. §1, can apply to a worker who transports goods on an intrastate leg of an interstate journey and who does not cross state lines or interact with vehicles that do.

Syllabus summary as published on the Supreme Court’s opinions list.

How the bench divided

M 9 majority

How each justice voted in Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock.
JusticeVote
Neil GorsuchMajority
John G. RobertsMajority
Clarence ThomasMajority
Samuel AlitoMajority
Sonia SotomayorMajority
Elena KaganMajority
Amy Coney BarrettMajority
Brett KavanaughMajority
Ketanji Brown JacksonMajority