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(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Uber and Lyft to lawsuits by the state of California on behalf of drivers who signed agreements to keep legal disputes ...
The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear appeals from ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, which were asking to block California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens of thousands of ...
An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a lower court ruling that said Uber failed to show that the 2020 state law known as AB5 unfairly singled out app ...
Uber and Lyft can still ask that the decision be reviewed by the California Supreme Court, which can decide whether or not to hear the case. Uber, Lyft likely violated California labor law ...
Uber allegedly used this button at least 24 times, from spring 2015 until late 2016. [27] [28] The existence of the kill switch was confirmed in documents leaked in 2022. [29] When Uber offices were raided by police or regulatory agencies, the "kill switch" of which was not used until the very moment, was used to cut access to the data systems ...
California Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman issued his ruling on August 10, 2020, stating that Uber and Lyft must treat their drivers as employees under AB-5, as their work in the context of the "ABC test" was not outside the usual course of their business, nor was a "multi-sided platform" as Uber and Lyft had argued but simply ...
Earlier this year, Uber lost a legal battle to overturn AB 5 after arguing the law violated the company’s rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the California and U.S. Constitutions.
Uber appealed with QC Philip Kolvin, taking City of York Council to the Magistrates. [265] Uber withdrew from the appeal on March 14, 2018 with the plan to reapply for the license. [266] [267] In November 2018, the city looked into the legality of Uber after a legal expert claimed that Uber drivers are "acting as unlicensed operators". [268]