February 11, 2020
A federal judge cut a pair of claims from a trucking group's suit challenging a new California law that raises the bar for legally classifying workers as independent contractors, but refused to throw the lawsuit out.
February 06, 2020
The Teamsters union has no grounds to interfere with a California federal court's decision blocking a controversial Golden State law that raises the bar for legally classifying workers as independent contractors, even as the Ninth Circuit reviews the injunction order, a trucking group said Thursday.
January 30, 2020
California's attorney general and the Teamsters have each informed a federal judge that they will ask the Ninth Circuit to review his recent ruling to block enforcement in the trucking industry of a controversial state law that made it harder for workers to be classified as independent contractors.
January 16, 2020
A California federal judge on Thursday blocked enforcement of a controversial Golden State law that raises the bar for legally classifying workers as independent contractors, agreeing with a trucking group that the law upends motor carrier operations and flies in the face of federal law.
January 08, 2020
The Ninth Circuit's recent affirmation of a $55 million jury verdict that truckers won against Walmart torpedoes a trucking industry group's contention that California's controversial new independent contractor law clashes with a federal statute, the Teamsters have told a California federal judge.
January 01, 2020
The commercial trucking, logistics and gig-economy industries' duels over the independent contractor status of drivers and couriers, as well as clashes over the scope of federal preemption are among the court battles that transportation attorneys will keep their eye on in 2020.
December 03, 2019
A California trucking group has asked a federal court to block enforcement of the Golden State's Dynamex standard for distinguishing between independent contractors and employees, insisting that it flouts federal law and upends trucking operations.
November 13, 2019
A California trucking group has launched the first constitutional challenge to the Golden State's standard for distinguishing between independent contractors and employees, saying a new state statute making it more difficult for businesses to classify their workers as independent contractors is trumped by federal law.
September 25, 2019
A California federal judge has nixed a trucking group's constitutional challenge to the Golden State's standard for distinguishing between independent contractors and employees, saying Tuesday it's unclear whether the group was harmed by a yet-to-be-enforced standard, but a new state law might moot its claims anyway.
February 08, 2019
California's attorney general slammed a trucking group's claims that a newly adopted state standard for distinguishing between independent contractors and employees is preempted by federal law, saying Thursday that it can't claim harm from a yet-to-be-enforced standard.