January 18, 2023
The full Ninth Circuit won't review a panel decision that California's Assembly Bill 5 governing worker classification doesn't impede the First Amendment rights of three groups, turning down their request to step in.
October 26, 2022
A political action committee and two other groups urged the full Ninth Circuit to step in and reevaluate a panel ruling that California's Assembly Bill 5 doesn't impede their First Amendment rights, arguing the decision creates a conflict worth examining.
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.
October 11, 2022
California's application of a worker-friendly independent contractor test to political canvassers but not door-to-door salespeople was not illegal, speech-based discrimination, the Ninth Circuit concluded Tuesday in a case challenging the state's A.B. 5 classification law.
September 20, 2021
Assembly Bill 5 does not violate groups' right to free speech because it focuses on regulating employment, the state's attorney general told the Ninth Circuit, hitting back against a bid to eliminate the law.
August 23, 2021
A political action committee and two other groups said California's Assembly Bill 5 requirement to classify door-knockers as employees is a "textbook example" of discrimination against political speech, urging the Ninth Circuit to overturn a lower court's decision.