(DOWNLOAD) "Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams" by United States Supreme Court # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 21, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 94 KB
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Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) excludes from the Acts coverage "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce." 9 U. S. C. §1. All but one of the Courts of Appeals which have addressed the issue interpret this provision as exempting contracts of employment of transportation workers, but not other employment contracts, from the FAAs coverage. A different interpretation has been adopted by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which construes the exemption so that all contracts of employment are beyond the FAAs reach, whether or not the worker is engaged in transportation. It applied that rule to the instant case. We now decide that the better interpretation is to construe the statute, as most of the Courts of Appeals have done, to confine the exemption to transportation workers.