carveout for interstate transportation workers shielded a Chicago ramp agent supervisor from having to arbitrate her wage-and-hour claims against the airline. The justices granted Southwest's petition for certiorari to weigh in on what the airline described as a growing court split on which types of workers are exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act. Section 1 of the FAA exempts from arbitration "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate. . .
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