Margaret Palcko v. Airborne Express, Inc.

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• holding that a field service supervisor for a package transportation and delivery company that engages in intrastate, interstate, and international shipping was exempt under §1.
• holding that the plaintiff, a field service supervisor in Philadelphia for the defendant-shipping company, was a transportation worker because she supervised the delivery of goods in interstate commerce
• holding that a district court erred in applying the FAA to an arbitration agreement, rather than the applicable state law on enforceability of arbitration agreements, and observing that the FAA does not preempt the entire field of arbitration
• holding that a “field services supervisor” of delivery drivers was excluded
• presuming that truck drivers fall within the residual clause of Section 1 of the FAA
• finding that a worker who directly supervised package shipments was exempt under § 1 even though the worker did not personally transport packages

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