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Dan Thiel

Dan represents transportation industry participants including shippers, carriers, brokers (3PLs), motor carriers, freight forwarders, intermediaries, NVOCCs, warehouses, and ocean vessels in commercial litigation matters.

The Supreme Court’s unanimous May 28, 2026, decision in Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock significantly broadens the Federal Arbitration Act’s Section 1 transportation-worker exemption by holding that workers performing exclusively intrastate deliveries as part of a larger interstate supply chain qualify as “engaged in interstate commerce” and are therefore exempt from compelled arbitration—even when they