October 18, 2022
The argument that a California law containing a worker classification test violates free speech rights seems unlikely to have a path forward after the Ninth Circuit shot down the claim for a second time, attorneys said. Here, Law360 looks at the free speech argument.
November 24, 2021
The full Ninth Circuit won't reevaluate a panel decision that axed a pair of journalist organizations' claims alleging their First Amendment rights were harmed by California Assembly Bill 5, which raised the standard to classify workers as contractors.
October 21, 2021
The full Ninth Circuit should reconsider a panel decision that nixed a pair of journalist organizations' challenge to a California worker classification law, the groups argued, saying the panel incorrectly held that the law did not violate free-speech rights.
October 06, 2021
California's independent contractor classification test survived a challenge from two freelance journalist organizations Wednesday when the Ninth Circuit ruled that the state law regulates only economic activity and doesn't violate free speech rights.
June 11, 2021
The Ninth Circuit on Friday seemed reluctant to accept an argument by a pair of freelance journalist organizations to revive a bid for an injunction over California's Assembly Bill 5, pushing back against the groups' claim during oral arguments that the worker classification law restricts speech.
January 28, 2021
California's A.B. 5, which limited the number of stories a freelance journalist could file with a publisher before being considered an employee, does not limit free speech, the state attorney general told the Ninth Circuit in a challenge to the worker classification test.
November 30, 2020
Freelance-journalists organizations have asked the Ninth Circuit to revive their challenge to California's A.B. 5 worker classification law, saying the lower court should have invalidated sections of the law that limited their right to free speech instead of dismissing their claims.