Column: In a ruling protecting AB 5, a judge loses patience with Uber and Lyft 'nonsense'

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A judge labels the anti-AB 5 argument of Uber and Lyft 'nonsense'

We’re familiar with the Uber that talked about responding to bad publicity by digging up dirt on reporters following the company.This is “nonsense,” Schulman writes. “To state the obvious, drivers are central, not tangential, to Uber and Lyft’s entire ride-hailing business.”

Nor does Schulman show much patience for the companies’ plea to put off enforcement of AB 5 until the voters weigh in on Proposition 22. If, as Becerra contends, the companies are violating the law, there’s no reason that “they should be given a pass to continue doing so to see if they can muster their considerable financial resources to persuade the voters to change the law in their favor.”

 

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