July 13, 2020
A California federal judge on Friday dismissed with prejudice freelance journalists' challenge to the state's A.B. 5 law, which makes it harder for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors, ruling that they should have taken his earlier suggestion to improve their defective lawsuit instead of running to the Ninth Circuit.
May 28, 2020
California has urged a federal judge to close the book on a suit brought by freelance writers and photographers challenging a Golden State law that makes it harder to classify workers as independent contractors, saying they missed the boat for amending their suit after it was tossed in March.
March 23, 2020
Freelance writers and photographers can't avoid being covered by a California law making it harder to classify workers as independent contractors because the state had good reason to distinguish them from artists and others deemed exempt, a federal judge ruled.
March 11, 2020
Two journalist organizations asked a California federal judge Wednesday to block the Golden State from enforcing part of its new independent contractor classification law, arguing that the law draws distinctions based on occupation that unfairly restrict freelance journalists.
January 27, 2020
California on Friday urged a federal judge to toss a suit from two journalists organizations challenging the state's new independent contractor classification law, arguing that the law doesn't unfairly restrict freelance journalists as it draws no distinctions based on occupation.
January 06, 2020
Two groups representing freelance journalists have failed to persuade a California federal judge to freeze portions of the state's controversial new independent contractor classification law, instead earning a judicial rebuke for waiting until the last minute to ask the court to step in.
December 17, 2019
Two organizations of journalists asked a federal court Tuesday to block enforcement of parts of California's Dynamex standard for distinguishing between independent contractors and employees, arguing it is unfairly restrictive for freelance writers and photographers.