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· 11/22/2023

PA EDF, Aplt. v. House of Rep.

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  • holding that the exclusionary language of § 1 should only apply to those “workers who are actually engaged in the movement of interstate or foreign commerce or in work so closely related thereto as to be in practical effect part of it”
  • noting that Congress \must have had [the FELA] in mind\ when drafting the residual clause in Section 1 of the FAA, given that Congress \incorporat[ed] almost exactly the same phraseology\ into the FAA
  • noting that Congress \must have had [the FELA] in mind\ when drafting the residual clause in Section 1 of the FAA, given that Congress \incorporat[ed] almost exactly the same phraseology\ into the FAA
  • Section 1 applies only to workers “who are actually engaged in the movement of interstate or foreign commerce or in work so closely related thereto as to be in practical effect part of it.”

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Judges: Per Curiam

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