[1] In the 2022 case Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon, the Supreme Court held that airport cargo loaders and ramp supervisors qualified under this exemption, emphasizing that individuals are categorized by their type of work, rather than the industrial sector of their employer.

[1] Between 2017 and 2018, Neal Bissonnette and Tyler Wojnarowski entered distributor agreements with Flower Foods, working full-time on picking up bakery products from the company's warehouses and distributing them to stores and restaurants across the state of Connecticut.

[2] In an amicus brief, the Constitutional Accountability Center argued against the Second Circuit's ruling by noting that the exemption for sailors was enacted to avoid conflicting with the Shipping Commissioners Act of 1872.

[1] In a unanimous opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court rejected the Second Circuit's reasoning due to the difficulty of determining whether a business' "predominant source of revenue" was the production of its goods or the transportation of them to customers.

Furthermore, the Supreme Court rejected LePage Bakeries' reasoning that other early 20th-century statutes on regulation of sailors and railroad workers should be used to limit the FAA's exemption to the transportation sector.