Ahaji Amos v. Amazon Logistics, INC.

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• concluding that the FAA required arbitration and expressly declining to determine 4 See, e.g., Robertson’s Ready Mix, Ltd. v. Edwards, No. 22-CV-1386, 2023 WL 3049228, at (C.D. Cal. Mar. 2, 2023
• holding that DSP agreement between Amazon and corporate plaintiff was not a “contract of employment” because “it did not promise work and compensation to an individual employee,” but required “certain business services to be provided by one business to another. . ..”
• finding that the plaintiff corporation did not qualify for the transportation worker exemption in part because it was “not some legal fiction existing only to shield Amazon from unwanted liabilities”
• finding that the plaintiff corporation did not qualify for the transportation worker exemption in part because it was “not some legal fiction existing only to shield Amazon from unwanted liabilities”
• relating not to individual employment but to business services provided to another business
• “plaintiff Amos is not a party to the Agreement — and so her central arguments that she was a ‘transportation worker’ and had a ‘contract of employment’ with Amazon fall completely flat.”

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• Silva v. Schmidt Baking Distribution, LLC
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• Vela v. Harbor Rail Services of California, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2026-05-01
• Orr v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Riverside
  Ninth Circuit· 2026-06-09

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna
  Supreme Court· 2006-02-21· cited 1,641×
• Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams
  Supreme Court· 2001-03-21· cited 1,312×
• Aggarao v. MOL SHIP MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-03-16· cited 273×
• Jacqueline Galloway v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc
  Fourth Circuit· 2016-04-08· cited 118×