Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 6, 2022 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- June 6, 2022
- Term
- October Term 2021
- Vote
- 8–0
- Majority author
- Justice Thomas
- Issue area
- Unions
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2021 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO. v. SAXON CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 21–309. Argued March 28, 2022—Decided June 6, 2022 Respondent Latrice Saxon, a ramp supervisor for Southwest Airlines, trains and supervises teams of ramp agents who physically load and unload cargo on and off airplanes that travel across the country. Like many ramp supervisors, Saxon also frequently loads and unloads cargo alongside the ramp agents. Saxon came to believe that Southwest was failing to pay proper overtime wages to ramp supervisors, and she brought a putative class action against Southwest under the Fair La- bor Standards Act of 1938. Because Saxon’s employment contract re- quired her to arbitrate wage disputes individually, Southwest sought to enforce its arbitration agreement and moved to dismiss. In re- sponse, Saxon claimed that ramp supervisors were a “class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate…
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