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Court Upholds Law Classifying App-Based Drivers as Independent Contractors: Does What Happens in California, Stay in California?

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The California Supreme Court recently upheld a California law that classifies drivers for app-based transportation companies, such as Uber, Lyft, or DoorDash, as independent contractors and not employees, provided the company...more

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California Uber Accidents and Personal Injury Claims

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Uber is a California-born taxi service that relies upon apps on tablets, smartphones, and computers. Requests for service come with a few finger taps rather than hailing for cabs or competing with other taxi riders for...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Ninth Circuit to Hear AB 5 Challenge En Banc

In the latest chapter of the saga of California’s Assembly Bill 5, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a panel decision finding that the law violated the Equal Protection Clause and granted rehearing en banc. ...more

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California Proposition Regarding App-Based Drivers is Largely Here to Stay (For Now)

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A California Court of Appeals recently addressed challenges to Proposition 22, the Protect App-Based Drivers and Services Act, and concluded that it will largely remain in effect, at least for now. Background: Whether...more

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California Court Of Appeal Holds That App-Based Driver And Delivery Businesses Can Properly Classify Workers As Independent...

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On March 13, 2023, in Castellanos v. State of California, the California Court of Appeal handed down a pink unicorn decision in favor of app-based driver and delivery businesses that permits them to properly classify workers...more

Venable LLP

Gig Platforms, Wake Up. All Eyes Are Upon You.

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Constant connectivity through smartphones has ushered in a new way for small businesses to connect with potential customers and gig workers looking for flexible employment. The emergence of companies like Uber, GrubHub,...more

Foster Garvey PC

Online Travel Update: Groups360 Raises an Additional $50 Million; Uber Continues Push to Super App Status; and Google’s Rob Torres...

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This week’s Online Travel Update features a variety of stories, including a follow up story on Uber’s ongoing transition from ride hailing app to super app. Enjoy....more

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Online Travel Update: Effects of Recent Egencia Acquisition Start to Unfold at Amex GBT; Uber Seeks Super App Status; and Expedia...

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What a week it has been watching the horrible events unfold in Ukraine. Our thoughts and prayers go out to those in Ukraine or with family in Ukraine....more

Pierce Atwood LLP

When Do Smartphone Apps Create Binding Contracts? The Maine Law Court Weighs In

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The Maine Supreme Judicial Court recently issued its first opinion on the enforceability of contracts formed using a smartphone app. (Sarchi, et al. v. Uber Technologies, Inc., et al., 2022 ME 8) In a unanimous decision, the...more

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California Legislature Passes AB-286 Third-Party Delivery Platform Law

On September 1, 2021, the California State Assembly joined the California State Senate in passing Assembly Bill 286, which will regulate food delivery platforms throughout the state. The bill passed with bipartisan support in...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

California, Ride-Hailing Companies Collide In Court: Implications And Next Steps

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Uber, Lyft, and other app-based transportation companies suffered a blow on August 20, 2021, when Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled that California’s Proposition 22 violates the state’s constitution and is...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 6.10.2021 | Top Story: TC Energy Abandons Controversial Keystone XL Pipeline Project

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After years of protests, lobbying, and legal battles, TC Energy—the Canadian pipeline company behind the embattled Keystone XL pipeline project that “would have carried petroleum from Canadian tar sands to Nebraska”—announced...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.17.2021 | Top Story: Uber to Reclassify Its 70k British Drivers as “Workers”

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Uber will officially classify its British drivers, all 70,000 of them, as “workers” following a “major legal defeat” for the ride-hailing company in the British Supreme Court last month. The move entitles the drivers to “a...more

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Driving in Reverse? Uber/Lyft Drivers Seek to Undo California's Proposition 22

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Note to Readers: In this two part-series, we will discuss major developments in California’s gig economy landscape this week. Part 1 discusses a lawsuit filed by Uber and Lyft drivers challenging the constitutionality of Prop...more

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California Voters OK Independent Contractor Status for App Service Drivers

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On November 3, 2020, nearly 60% of California voters approved a ballot measure to create a carve-out from the state’s expansive independent contractor law, AB 5, for drivers on technology platforms such as Lyft, Uber,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.28.2020 | Top Story: Big Tech CEOs to Face Senators Today Over Section 230 and Content Monitoring

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A handful of tech’s biggest leaders—the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google, to be precise—descend upon the Hill today for a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on content monitoring and Section 230, the “slim and powerful...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.28.2020 | Top Story: Federal Court Halts White House Ban on TIkTok App-Store Downloads

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A federal judge has delivered another win for TikTok over the weekend, temporarily blocking a White House ban “on new downloads of the video-sharing network, which would have gone into effect at 11:59 p.m. in Washington.” The...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms Order Denying Uber’s Motion to Compel Arbitration of Claims Brought Under the ADA

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In a dispute over Uber’s alleged failure to provide a wheelchair-accessible ride-sharing option in New Orleans, the District Court held that, under California law, plaintiffs were not equitably estopped from avoiding...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.21.2020 | Top Story: Court Stays CA Gig-Worker Law; Uber and Lyft to Keep Operating in State During Appeal

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A state appeals court in California has preempted Uber and Lyft’s threatened state-wide shutdown over a new state law ordering them to reclassify their drivers as employees by “allowing them to continue operating [under their...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.15.2020 | Top Story: America’s Biggest Banks Setting Aside Tens of Billions for Anticipated Loan Losses

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The latest quarterly reporting shows that America’s biggest banks—among them, JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo—are taking self-imposed hits now in anticipation of a “wave of loan losses” later. Those three are...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.20.2019 | Goldman nearing $2B deal with DOJ to resolve 1MDB scandal claims

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Goldman Sachs is reportedly in negotiations with federal prosecutors to resolve claims about its role in the Malaysian 1MDB scandal for upwards of $2 billion. A settlement—which “could include a guilty plea from Goldman’s...more

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Court to Consider Whether California Ride Share Drivers Who Make Airport Runs Are Exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act

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On November 26, 2019, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) might not apply to Uber drivers who are engaged in interstate commerce while driving passengers to or...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.15.2019 | Top Story: New Jersey Targets Uber Over “Independent Contractor” Worker Classification

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Sending a shot across the bow of the gig economy, New Jersey is seeking nearly $650 million from Uber for “years of unpaid employment taxes for its drivers, arguing that the ride-hailing company has misclassified the workers...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.15.2019 | Top Story: Uber lays off 350 more corporate workers in effort to control costs

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Ride-hailing giant Uber laid off 350 workers on Monday as part of an ongoing effort to pare costs that now represents 1000 jobs cut since July....more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.4.2019 | Top Story: Markets Watching US Jobs Report for Clues on More Fed Rate Action

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Jobs report Friday again. Here’s what to look for in the numbers [and let’s temper those expectations, okay?]...more

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