New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira

New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 3, 2018 Decided January 15, 2019
Full case name	New Prime Inc. v. Dominic Oliveira
Docket no.	17-340
Citations	586 U.S. ___ (more) 139 S. Ct. 532; 202 L. Ed. 2d 536
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Oliveira v. New Prime, Inc., 141 F. Supp. 3d 125 (D. Mass. 2015); affirmed in part, dismissed in part, 857 F.3d 7 (1st Cir. 2017); cert. granted, 138 S. Ct. 1164 (2018).
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
Majority	Gorsuch, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan
Concurrence	Ginsburg
Kavanaugh took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Federal Arbitration Act

New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira, 586 U.S. ___ (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the classification of employees hired as contractors in relation to exceptions to arbitration set forth in the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). The Court ruled unanimously that the exceptions set forth in the FAA, principally for those involved in foreign and interstate commerce such as truck drivers, do apply to contractors as they would to regular employees.