Commentary: Reopening Uber’s challenge to California labor law is just the beginning
by Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk, Los Angeles Times
Mar 21, 2023
3 minutes
In a stunning decision Friday that departs from nearly 90 years of Supreme Court decisions, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a constitutional challenge to Assembly Bill 5, the 2019 California law meant to protect low-wage workers.
The ruling is especially shocking and troubling because in 2021 the same court rejected exactly the same challenge to the same law. The turnabout in Friday’s decision is likely to open the door to constitutional challenges to countless state
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