Supreme Court Decision Syllabus (scotus)

Flowers makes baked goods that are then distributed across the country.  Bissonnette owned the distribution rights in a certain part of the country.  Their contract subjected them to the F.A.A..  After Bissonnette sued under Labor (wage) laws, Flowers moved to compel arbitration.  Bissonnette said they're exempt because the F.A.A. exempts “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”  The District Court dismissed the case, sending it to Arbitration.  The Second City affirmed, finding that the exemption only applied to workers in the transportation industry, but these were workers in the bakery industry. Held: A transportation worker need not work in the transportation industry to be exempt from coverage under §1 of the FAA.(a) The Court has long recognized that the exemption in §1 is limited to transportation workers. See Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams. Applying the ejusdem generis canon of statutory interpretation to