Joan Bacashihua, American Postal Workers Union v. United States Postal Service

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the Federal Arbitration Act “has been strictly interpreted by the courts to prohibit an employee who was not a party to the arbitration from appealing the results of the arbitration between the employee’s union and employer”
• noting that the Federal Arbitration Act “has been strictly interpreted by the courts to prohibit an employee who was not a party to the arbitration from appealing the results of the arbitration between the employee’s union and employer”
• “the concern ... [is] not whether the individual worker actually engaged in interstate commerce, but whether the class of workers to which the complaining worker belonged engaged in interstate commerce” (citation omitted)
• “If any class of workers is engaged in interstate commerce, it is postal workers.”
• the class of workers must engage in interstate commerce
• agreement involving postal service employee excluded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).