On October 20, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in three cases:
Flower Foods, Inc. v. Brock, No. 24-935: This case addresses the scope of a Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) exemption, which states that the FAA does not apply to "seamen, railroad employees or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce." The question presented is: Whether workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce — but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles that cross borders — are “transportation workers” “engaged in foreign or interstate commerce” for purposes of the exemption in Section 1 of the FAA.
United States v. Hemani, No. 24-1234: This case concerns whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits unlawful users of controlled substances from possessing firearms, violates the Second Amendment as applied to the defendant in the case.
Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Inc., No. 25-6: This case addresses whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be invoked to bar a plaintiff who fails to disclose a potential civil claim in bankruptcy filings from pursuing that claim simply because there is a potential motive for nondisclosure, regardless of whether there is evidence that the plaintiff in fact acted in bad faith.