Swift Transportation Co. v. United States District Court for District of Arizona

Interstate truck driver Van Dusen signed an agreement with Swift designating Van Dusen as an independent contractor. The agreement also stated that the parties would arbitrate any dispute. Van Dusen now says that she was actually an employee and the contract was really one of employment, so it was exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). We have twice before given this district court a single task: Decide whether the agreement falls into the category of “contracts of employment” for purposes of the FAA. Instead, six years after our first ruling, the district court is erroneously…