International Longshoremen's Ass'n v. Fisher

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that truck drivers that picked up goods arriving from out of state—after the goods had already crossed state-lines and were unloaded—for deliveries intrastate were not exempt under Section 1
• holding that delivery drivers for a clothing company were not exempt under Section 1, and articulating the test as membership in a “class of workers” whose work “actually” involved transport and which was “engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
• explaining that local delivery drivers are not “actively engaged in transportation of those goods across borders” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• concluding that a plaintiff who belonged to a class of workers that “picks up items from a local warehouse and delivers those items to local customers” is “not so engaged in interstate commerce as § 1 contemplates” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• defining the plaintiff’s class of workers based on the work he performed for his employer
• finding truck drivers not exempt when they picked up goods from a company that had ordered out-of-state goods for delivery by the drivers within the state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).