August 29, 2022
A Ninth Circuit panel shouldn't review a California district court's decision granting class certification in a misclassification suit against a cleaning company, a group of janitors argued, saying the business waived its arbitration right after litigating the case for 13 years.
March 25, 2021
The full Ninth Circuit on Thursday declined to review an appellate panel decision maintaining that the California Supreme Court Dynamex ruling applies retroactively, rejecting a cleaning franchiser's plea to revisit the issue.
February 17, 2021
The full Ninth Circuit should review a panel decision to follow a recent California Supreme Court holding that its Dynamex ruling applies retroactively, a cleaning franchiser argued, saying Dynamex does not apply to a long-running wage suit brought by workers.
November 07, 2019
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday denied a cleaning company's request for it to rehear its ruling that the California Supreme Court's Dynamex decision applies to franchises, rejecting the company's assertion that the appeals court shouldn't have ruled on certain aspects of the landmark decision before receiving clarification from the high court.
October 09, 2019
A cleaning franchiser is once again asking the Ninth Circuit to rethink its choices, saying the appeals court shouldn't have ruled on certain aspects of the California Supreme Court's Dynamex decision before the justices clarified whether the landmark ruling applied retroactively.
September 25, 2019
The Ninth Circuit has asked the California Supreme Court to decide whether the justices' Dynamex decision applies retroactively, saying the state's highest court should clarify how to apply a new standard making it more difficult for employers to classify workers as independent contractors.
July 22, 2019
A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday undid its earlier finding that the California Supreme Court's Dynamex decision — which made it harder for businesses to classify their workers as independent contractors — applies retroactively, saying the state's highest court should have final say on the blockbuster ruling's application.
June 06, 2019
The California Employment Law Council has thrown its support behind a cleaning franchiser's bid for the full Ninth Circuit to review its finding that the California Supreme Court's landmark Dynamex decision, which makes it harder for businesses to classify their workers as independent contractors, applies retroactively.
May 02, 2019
The Ninth Circuit said Thursday the California Supreme Court's landmark Dynamex decision making it harder for businesses to classify their workers as independent contractors applies retroactively, setting the stage for a potential spike in wage-and-hour suits.