Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock · ¶2

Held: A worker who transports goods on an intrastate leg of an interstate journey can qualify for § 1's exemption without crossing state lines or interacting with vehicles that do. Pp. 385–390. (a) The statutory text does not support a rule requiring workers to cross state lines or interact with vehicles that do. When the FAA was enacted, to “engage” meant to “take part in” something or to be “employ[ed]” or “involve[d]” in that thing. Black's Law Dictionary 661. And “interstate commerce” meant “[t]raffc,” “intercourse,” or “the transportation of persons or property between or among the several states . . . or from or between points in one state and points in another state.” Id., at 1001. Nothing in those terms requires an individual to cross state lines or interact with a vehicle that does. Interstate commerce includes transporting products “between points in one state and points in…

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